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Elena Kranioti is a medical doctor, graduate of the University of Crete (2003) and a certified Forensic Pathologist (2007) in Greece and a FASE certified Forensic Anthropologist (level 1) in Europe (2022). In 2007 she was awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Natural History Museum in Spain, within the framework of EVAN, a European training network with focus on Virtual Anthropology and Geometric-Morphometrics. In 2009 she completed her PhD at the University of Crete and became Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh (2010-2019). She was recently promoted to Associate Professor in Forensic Medicine. She is the author/co-author in 100 publications (Scopus archive, h-index=17). Elena is the first Greek national with a diploma in Forensic Radiology and Virtopsy from the University of Zurich (2017) and the first forensic pathologist in Greece to apply post-mortem CT in forensic casework (since 2016). She is a board member of Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (FASE) and a board member of the Hellenic Association of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences.