Margot Louail studies the past ecologies of African suids and primates in the Pliocene and Pleistocene to explore the role of seasonality and feeding habits on their evolution. Her research mostly involves dental wear analysis and stable isotopes. She received her PhD from the University of Poitiers where she studied how teeth record the consumption of resources that could have been fallback foods for early hominins using controlled-fed pigs as a model. She comes to the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, as a Junior Fellow with the American School of Prehistoric Research, to develop tools to better interpret isotopic variations in diet and to investigate how suids and hominins responded to environmental dynamics in the Turkana Depression.