Short bio

Sophia Mavroudas is a biological anthropologist employed by the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (FACTS) where she has been the Coordinator since 2011. She received her MA from New York University and is currently a PhD Candidate in Applied Anthropology at Texas State. At FACTS Sophia is responsible for the instruction of workshops aimed to educate medicolegal professionals and anthropologists on human osteology and forensic methods. As a forensic anthropologist, she practices in the state of Texas including casework for Operation Identification, which aims to recover, identify and repatriate migrants who perish along the US southern border. Her research focuses on the application of bone histology for age-at-death estimation, thermal alteration to the human skeleton, as well as accuracy and precision investigations of forensic anthropology methods.