**Ann H. Ross**

Ann H. Ross, Ph.D., D-ABFA, is a Board-Certified forensic anthropologist, in the Department of Biological Sciences at NC State. She runs the NC Human Identification and Forensic Analysis Lab at State. Professor Ross has been committed to human rights and disaster work and has been deployed to Bosnia after the genocide, worked for the Panamanian and Chilean Truth Commissions. Dr. Ross is also a member of the Federal DHHS Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team and assisted in the identifications after Hurricane Katrina and US Citizens who perished in the Haiti Earthquake. Her laboratory also has a large forensic anthropology caseload and has been very active in working with multidisciplinary teams in North Carolina to reduce the backlog of unidentified remains. Professor Ross teaches courses in human identification and cold case investigations, to name a few.

#### **Eug ´enia Cunha**

Eugenia Cunha, Ph.D., C- FASE, is a forensic anthropologist and the Director of the South ´ Delegation of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal. She is also a full professor at the University of Coimbra since 2003, where she created and co-coordinates the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology. She is a Co-founder and former President of FASE-Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (2009–2016); Vice-President and Founder member of ABRAF - Associac¸ao Brasileira de Antropologia Forensel; Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic ˜ Sciences; Member of the Pathology and Anthropology Sub-group at the Interpol DVI Working Group; Roster member of JRR, Justice Rapid Response. Invited teacher, among others, at Stanford University, USA (Tinker visiting research, Center of Latin American Studies, 2020). Since 1997, she has conducted more than 500 forensic anthropology cases in Portugal and abroad (Brazil and some African countries). She has been a consultant and evaluator to several entities in around 15 different countries and invited speaker in about 25 countries. She is a top peer-reviewer and a member of the Editorial Board of some scientific journals. She is the co-editor/author of four books and author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. To date, 22 Ph.D. students have already accomplished their Ph.D. under her supervision. Her research aims are focused on forensic anthropology, specifically in identification.
