Lucie Biehler-Gomez, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in bioarch- aeology and forensic anthropology at the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology and Odontology (LABANOF), University of Milan, Italy. She obtained her BSc at the Universite´ Lumie`re Lyon 2 (France) in 2014 finishing her degree with a year abroad at the University of California Davis, CA, United States, her MSc in 2016 at the Faculty of Medicine, Universite´ de Lorraine Nancy, France and in 2020 her PhD at the Universita` degli studi di Milano (Italy). Her research emphasis is on the recognition and diagnosis of bone disease, in particular based on the modern and documented CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection of LABANOF. She wrote several chapters, published over 15 research articles in international journals and is currently a Reviewer for the journal Forensic Science International. In 2020, she was awarded the L'Ore´al-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship (Italian edition).
Cristina Cattaneo - forensic pathologist and anthropologist, is currently Full Professor of Legal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) and Director of LABANOF, Laboratorio di Antropologia e Odontologia Forense. She has been actively involved with the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the creation of a national database for unidentified human remains and has since 2014 been the medico legal coordinator for the Governmental Office of the Commissioner for Missing Persons for the identification of dead migrants. She also coordinates the medico legal activities on victims of maltreatment, torture and on unaccompanied minors in Milano. She is a forensic pathology and anthropology expert for various courts in Italy and occasionally in Europe, President of FASE (Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe), member of the Swiss DVI (Disaster Victim Identification) team and Co Editor in Chief for the journal of Forensic Science International
