{"id":3289,"date":"2026-04-13T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:10:29","slug":"researcher-profile-mattias-jakobsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/researcher-profile-mattias-jakobsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher profile: Mattias Jakobsson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-20251126_093527-473x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-20251126_093527-473x1024.jpg 473w, https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-20251126_093527-139x300.jpg 139w, https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-20251126_093527-768x1662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-20251126_093527-710x1536.jpg 710w, https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-20251126_093527-353x765.jpg 353w, https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-20251126_093527-rotated.jpg 887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Sometimes we know little about the people we work closely with. Uppsala University has recently published a researcher profile about the head of the Jakobsson Lab. Mattias&#8217; research casts new light on human prehistory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re allowed to think freely, brainstorm and speculate. And the unknown, when we discover completely different things than what we expected. That\u2019s the joy of discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.se\/en\/news\/2026\/2026-04-02-mattias-jakobsson-rewrites-human-prehistory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we know little about the people we work closely with. Uppsala University has recently published a researcher profile about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobssonlab.iob.uu.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}