Justyna Miszkiewicz

I'm a biological anthropologist specialising in bone histology of humans and other mammals. I work with modern, archaeological, and palaeontological samples. I have been an Honorary Senior Lecturer at UQ since 2021, a Correspondent Researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (The Netherlands) since 2022, and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK) since 2016. ​I have >60 publications and have secured ~$1.6 million in grants as a PI, including a 2019–2022 ARC DECRA (DE190100068) and 2025–2028 ARC Future Fellowship (FT240100030). As a CI/AI, I have featured on ~$1.7 million worth of grants, including a 2023–2027 ARC DP (DP230100440).

In 2022 I was a Martin & Temminck Fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in The Netherlands​. ​Until 2022, I spent almost 7 years at the Australian National University in Canberra working as an ARC DECRA Fellow (2019–2022), Senior Lecturer, and Lecturer. Between 2015 and 2016 I was a Research Assistant in medicine at Imperial College in London. Until 2014, I spent about 8 years at the University of Kent in Canterbury completing a BSc (2010), PhD (2014), and PGCHE (2014), and working in various teaching roles, including tutoring, lab demonstration, sessional lecturing, and lecturing. I was previously Treasurer of the Australasian Society for Human Biology, Editor (2022) and Associate Editor (2023) of The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, and Editorial Board Member (2022–2024) of Scientific Reports. I am currently Editorial Board Member of Anthropological Review and Review Editor (2023) of Human Bioarchaeology and Paleopathology (Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology).