Ana Prohaska ^(DK)

Ana Prohaska is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, within the Geogenetics Centre for Ancient Environmental Genomics. She holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and previously completed postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge (2017–2021) before joining Copenhagen in 2021. 

Her research group works at the interface of ancient genetics, palaeoecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation science, seeking to understand how species and ecosystems responded to past environmental change and how this understanding can inform conservation decision-making. In 2025, Ana received a Villum Young Investigator grant for her project MASS-FLOW, which investigates the impact of climate change on mass flowering, a critical reproductive strategy in plants that depends on interannual large-scale synchronisation of flowering output. Using fossil pollen DNA as a ‘time machine’, the project aims to uncover how past climatic changes affected this phenomenon in European temperate forests, providing insights for future conservation strategies. 

Ana Prohaska is taking part in the SPARK project All the Soft Always Goes Away in collaboration with artist Kirstine Autzen.

This profile was last updated on 9 June 2026.