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Birth date: 19th of May, 1962 Citizenship: Portuguese Biologist ( Univ. Coimbra, 1984); Phd in Sciences, Physical Anthropology, Univ. of Coimbra, 1994. Main scientific interests: forensic anthropology, human evolution, skeletal biology, paleopathology. Since 2003: Full Professor, Professora catedrtica, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal President of the Department of Anthropology, Univ. Coimbra National Consultant for Forensic Anthropology of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine (Portugal) President of Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (FASE) She is the coordinator of the Masters on Human Evolution, University of Coimbra, since 1998 ( since 2008 2nd cycle on Evolution and Human Biology) She supervised/ supervises 60 masters thesis and 17 PhD thesis on Human Evolution, Biological Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology and 5 post-doc in Biological Anthropology. Since 1993 she gave some 70 conferences in several Universities such as USP (So Paulo), Federal Rio de Janeiro; PUC Porto Alegre (Brasil) , Universidad Autonoma (Barcelona); Universidad de Granada, Universidad da Extremadura (Caceres), University of Kansas (USA), Universitat degli Studi di Milano; among others. Since 1985 she published around 115 articles in Proceedings, Chapter books (mainly international), in national and international journals such as Am. J. Phy. Anthropol, Journal of Human Evolution; Forensic Science International; International Journal of Legal Medicine, Int. Journal of Osteoarchaeology; Compte Rendue de lAcademie des Sciences, Journal of Forensic Sciences. She is Referee of the several journals Book editions: Schmitt,A.; Cunha,E.; Pinheiro,J. (ed.) 2006. Forensic Anthropology and Medicine: From recovery to cause of death. NJ. Humana Press. (www.humanapress.com ) Further details: http://www.uc.pt/en/cia/people/cvgena

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