About the contributors

Joe Adserias-Garriga, DDS, PhD, D-ABFO, is a forensic anthropologist and forensic odontologist from Spain, where she has directed and lectured in different postgraduate programs in forensic science. She is an external advisor to Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalonian Police), who honored her contribution in forensic casework. Dr Adserias-Garriga is currently working as a forensic anthropologist at the Forensic Anthropology Center, Texas State University, United States. She has conducted research collaborations with different entities in the United States and Europe. She is an ABFO Diplomate, and cofounder of the International Group of Forensic Odontology for Human Rights. She is a member of the INTERPOL DVI Odontology SubWorking Group and the INTERPOL DVI Pathology-Anthropology SubWorking Group.

Belinda S. Akpa is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Synthetic and Systems Biology at North Carolina State University. She holds a BA, MEng, and doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge (UK). A highly interdisciplinary researcher, her current interest is in developing mathematical frameworks that integrate heterogeneous data and help connect molecular phenomena to physiological outcomes. Dr Akpa is broadly interested in mathematical biology, but more specifically in how statistical and mechanistic approaches can be combined to frame targeted experimental strategies. By necessity, these efforts explore the limits of what one can learn from empirical observations and mathematical models, both independently and in integrative studies.

Ali A.H. Al-Janabi graduated with a Bachelor of Dentistry in Iraq and then acquired an MSc in genetics from the University of Baghdad, then going on to work with the Medicolegal Directorate in Baghdad. Here he specialized in forensic genetics, working in the Mass Graves Department and also the Crime Scene Department. He has just returned to the Medicolegal Directorate after completing his PhD in forensic genetics, optimizing the extraction of DNA from bone material from mass graves and crime scenes in Iraq.

Hassain M.H. Alsafiah graduated from King Saud University with a BSc in Biochemistry, and then worked as a forensic geneticist for the Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia. He went on to complete a MSc in Medical Genetics at Glasgow University and is now studying for a PhD in Forensic Genetics at the University of Central Lancashire. His research involves studying the population genetics of Saudi Arabia and the application of next-generation sequencing. He will return to be the Head of the Forensic Genetics Laboratory in the Eastern Province, Dammam, once he has completed his PhD.

Élisabeth Anstett, PhD, is a social anthropologist, tenured senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and Director of the Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide programme funded by the European Research Council. Her recent works deal with the social impact of mass exhumations, and more broadly with the legacy of genocide and mass violence in Europe. She co-edits the Human Remains and Violence book series published by Manchester University Press, and is also one of the three general editors of Human Remains & Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Diana Arango Gómez is a political scientist from the National University of Colombia with a Master's degree in Comparative American Studies, University of London. With experience in research and coordination of networks of civil society organizations and advocacy in international and national decision spaces. Executive Director of EQUITAS, Colombia.

Natalia Azziz obtained her degree at the Universidad de la República (Udelar), Uruguay, in 2013. In 2007, she joined the Forensic Anthropological team in Uruguay in the search for detained-disappeared persons during the last military dictatorship (1973-1985). Natalia has been a full member of the Latin American Association of Forensic Anthropology (ALAF) since 2014. She has participated in several meetings and workshops of ALAF. She was also part of the Bioethics Committee of the Administración de los Servicios de Salud del Estado (ASSE) in 2015-2016. She is currently completing a Master's degree in Anthropology at the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (Udelar).

Lisa G. Bailey, BA, is a forensic artist with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. She has worked on numerous cases involving the facial approximation of unidentified remains, composite sketches of unknown suspects, as well as age-progressed images of fugitives and missing children. Ms Bailey was an instructor on the FBI Forensic Facial Imaging Course and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the FBI Academy. A veteran of the US Navy, she earned her BA in Visual Art from the University of Maryland and worked as a graphic artist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory before joining the Bureau in 2001.

Jose Pablo Baraybar, PhD, is a Peruvian forensic anthropologist and Transregional Forensic Coordinator with the ICRC. He worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the ex-Yugoslavia, and was head of the Office on Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) for the United Nations in Kosovo. Baraybar is a founding member and former Executive Director of the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF).

Eric J. Bartelink, PhD, D-ABFA, has taught for 13 years at California State University, Chico, where he is currently a full professor and co-director of the Human Identification Laboratory. He is the President of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and serves on the AAFS Board of Directors. His research interests focus on the bioarchaeology of Native California, dietary reconstruction using stable isotope analysis, and applications within forensic anthropology. He is a coauthor of Essentials of Physical Anthropology, Introduction to Physical Anthropology, and Forensic Anthropology: Current Methods and Practice, and has authored and co-authored numerous articles in scientific journals.

Clement P. Bataille, PhD, received his MSc in environmental engineering in 2008 from the Institut National Polytechniques de Toulouse (France). He received his PhD in Geology in 2014 from the University of Utah. He spent two years in Houston, Texas, working as a geoscientist before returning to academia and taking up a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He joined the University of Ottawa as an assistant professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences in the fall of 2017. His lab group, the SAIVE group (Spatio-temporal Analytics of Isotope Variations in the Environment), uses spatiotemporal isotope variations to (1) develop geolocation tools in ecology and forensic sciences, (2) investigate weathering processes in rivers, and (3) reconstruct paleoenvironments in greenhouse periods.

Derek C. Benedix, PhD, ABFA, received his Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his Master of Arts and Doctorate in physical/forensic anthropology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Derek is a board-certified forensic anthropologist by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. From 2001 to 2015, Derek worked as a forensic anthropologist in the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Central Identification Laboratory in both Hawaii and Nebraska. Derek joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in September 2015, and has performed numerous short mission assignments as Forensic Specialist (Manila, Philippines and Athens, Greece), Regional Forensic Advisor (Kathmandu, Nepal), and Regional Forensic Manager for Asia and the Pacific (Jakarta, Indonesia).

Caroline Bennett, PhD, is a lecturer in cultural anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research considers genocide, violence and post-conflict environments, with particular attention paid to mass graves and the mass dead. Her current research considers mass graves from the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979. Prior to undertaking a PhD in social anthropology, Caroline spent some time working as a forensic anthropologist. She has published work on disaster victim identification and DNA analysis, justice after genocide, and dealing with the dead following the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Gregory E. Berg, PhD, earned his BA in anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1993, his MA from the bioarchaeology program of Arizona State University in 1999, and his PhD from the University of Tennessee in 2008. He is currently a laboratory manager and forensic anthropologist at the DPAA Laboratory in Hawaii where he works on the recovery and identification of missing US service personnel. His research has concentrated on ancestry and sex determination, trauma analysis, aging techniques, human identification and eyewear, intra- and inter-observer error studies, and isotope analysis - all of which are focused on human identification. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology.

Jonathan D. Bethard, PhD, D-ABFA, is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2013. Dr Bethard specializes in forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology and has worked as a consultant in forensic anthropology for the International...