Elena Sierra-Serrano
Areas of interest
Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Biology of Human Ageing, Human Variation and Diversity
Education
- Master of Medical Science: Uppsala University, Sweden, 2019
- Bachelor of Science: Universidad de Granada, Spain, 2017
RESEARCH
My research focuses on methods used for the analysis and identification of human skeletal remains. I am particularly interested in adult age estimation, the interplay between biological sex and gender, and how these may relate to a person's identity during forensic investigations as well as archaeological contexts. Specifically, I believe that if these methods become more inclusive and diverse, they would be more informative overall.
PHD RESEARCH
A New Protocol for Estimating Adult Skeletal Age Using the Pelvic Bone
MASTER THESIS
Intra-observer Reproducibility of a New Data Collection Methodology for the Estimation of Age at Death Based on the Pelvis of Human Skeletal Remains.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023 Sierra-Serrano E, Reid S & Albanese J. Exploring the interplay of biological sex and gender in a late Bronze Age tholos tomb and ossuary in the island of Kefalonia, Greece.
51st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology.
2022 Sierra-Serrano E, Albanese J. Investigating reproducibility of a skeletal age estimation method on two samples with remarkably different demographic profile.
74th Annual Scientific Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
2021 Sierra E, Albanese, J. Examining intra-observer reproducibility of a new data collection protocol for age estimation based on the auricular surface.
90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.