Anders Fischer is a Danish archaeologist with a PhD and MA who has spent more than four decades researching Stone Age cultures in Denmark. His work centres on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies, drawing on ancient DNA, stable isotope analysis and palaeoecology to trace prehistoric population shifts. He is affiliated with the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre at the University of Copenhagen and holds a visiting professorship at Kiel University. Fischer regularly presents his findings to general audiences through public lectures.
Fischer participated as a speaker in the State Museum of Natural History's popular science series 'Wine & Science' in Copenhagen, where he presented the life history of the Vittrup Man reconstructed via DNA and isotope analyses.
Fischer was co-author on a groundbreaking study in Nature that sequenced 100 ancient genomes from Denmark and demonstrated two major population shifts within just 1,000 years during the Neolithic period.
Fischer was first author on a study in PLOS ONE about the Vittrup Man that combined genome analysis and isotope data to map the geographic origin and life course of the killed Stone Age man.
Fischer gave a public lecture at the Kiel Conference 2023 as part of his guest professorship at the Johanna Mestorf Academy, University of Kiel, on Denmark's oldest population history.
