Elena Kranioti MD, PhD
Lecturer; Forensic Anthropology
Roles:
Room 00M.20, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Telephone: 0131 650 2368Other contacts:
Office hours: Wednesday 9.00am – 1.00pm
Biography
I am a medical doctor, graduate of the University of Crete (2003) and a certified Forensic Pathologist (2007). I completed my training in Forensic Pathology at the Department of Forensic Sciences of the University of Crete in 2007 and I spent a 4-month period at the Forensic Pathology Institute of the University of Düsseldorf as a Guest Scientist. In 2007 I was awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Natural History Museum in Spain, within the framework of EVAN, a European training network with focus on Virtual Anthropology (MRTN-CT-2005-019564). In 2009 I completed my Ph.D at the University of Crete and in January 2010 I was appointed as a Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology in Archaeology (SHCA) of the University of Edinburgh.
External appointments
I am involved in supervision of doctoral students of other European Universities in forensic related topics:
Medical School, University of Crete (Despoina Nathena)
I am also a member of the Academic Programs Committee and the Research and Development Committee of the British Association of Forensic Anthropology and a member on the following associations:
• American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)
• International Academy of Legal Medicine (IALM)
• British Association for Human Identification (BAHID)
• British Association for Forensic Anthropology (BAFA)
• Forensic Anthropology Society Europe (FASE)
• British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO)
Useful Links
http://www.evan.at/Members/elkranio
http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=tHPyMy8AAAAJ&hl=en