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Argyro Nafplioti, BA, MA, Ph.D, is a bioanthropologist at the aDNA Lab, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, specializing in isotope ratio research including AMS radiocarbon dating. She was the first to employ strontium isotope analysis to archaeology in Greece and also published the first map of bioavailable strontium isotope signatures in this context. She was also the first in Aegean archaeology to combine strontium with other isotope systems (oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, sulphur). Her research addresses questions of mobility, migration, palaeodiet, palaeoenvironment, palaeopathology, population connectivity and interaction. She has been the leading bioanthropologist  of more than 35 joint projects, museum exhibitions and excavations in Greece, Albania, Turkey, Jordan, Malta and the UK. She has been funded by numerous institutions, including the European Commission, the AHRC (UK), the British Academy, and the Greek Institute of State Scholarships (IKY). She has held several post-doctoral posts and recently completed at the University of Cambridge a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and a British Academy Research Grant. She is currently co-PI for NEOMATRIX at IMBB-FORTH and  FSM at ICS-FORTH. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is an Expert Evaluator for the European Commission, the NSF (USA), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, a reviewer for a number of international scientific journals and a member of the editorial board of three of these.