Short bio

Konstantinos Moraitis, M.Sc., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Forensic Anthropology, and Head of the Forensic Anthropology Unit at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. In addition to his teaching and research duties, Dr. Moraitis has been conducting forensic casework in Greece at the request of the Court, Office of the Prosecutor or police agencies since 1999. His involvement in casework includes field recovery, biological profiling and positive identification of human remains, evaluating skeletal trauma in autopsy cases, estimating time since death, and aging of the living. He has also participated as consultant forensic anthropologist in humanitarian missions in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Cyprus. He has worked for various organizations, including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Dr. Moraitis has published numerous scientific journal articles and book chapters and presented his research at a number of international and national meetings. Dr. Moraitis is also a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.