Overview
Background
I am an ARC Future Fellow at UQ with interdisciplinary research interests spanning social and biological sciences. My work examines how environmental and societal structures shape skeletal growth, metabolism, and health, drawing on technical expertise in skeletal histology applied across bioarchaeology, biology, biomedicine, forensics, and palaeontology. I have attracted ~$1.7M in competitive funding as PI (>$3.3M including collaborative grants), including an ARC DECRA and Future Fellowship.
I currently serve as Editor‑in‑Chief of Anthropological Review, Editorial Board Member of Annals of Human Biology, and Vice‑President of the Australasian Society for Human Biology. In 2024, I received the Linnean Society of London’s Trail‑Crisp Medal for contributions to microscopy in natural history.
My career spans academic, government, and industry roles in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands, including positions at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the Australian Government, ANU, Imperial College London, and the University of Kent, where I completed my BSc (Hons), PhD, and PGCHE. My previous service includes Treasurer of the Australasian Society for Human Biology and editorial roles with The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, Scientific Reports, and Anthropological Review.
Availability
- Dr Justyna Miszkiewicz is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced), University of Kent
- Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education, University of Kent
- Doctor of Philosophy of Biological Anthropology, University of Kent
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Mobility patterns in Grande Abrigo de Santana do Riacho, Minas Gerais, Brazil: insights from histomorphometric analysis of skeletal remains
Ribeiro Dias Guimaraes, Nathalia and Miszkiewicz, Justyna (2024). Mobility patterns in Grande Abrigo de Santana do Riacho, Minas Gerais, Brazil: insights from histomorphometric analysis of skeletal remains. Revista de Arqueologia, 37 (2), 236-260. doi: 10.24885/sab.v37i2.1147
2024
Book Chapter
Investigating super osteons in fossil Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) bone from Bangka Island, southeastern Sumatra
Basilia, Pauline, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Zaim, Jahdi, Rizal, Yan, Puspangingrum, Mika R., Hascaryo, Agus Tri, Price, Gilbert J. and Louys, Julien (2024). Investigating super osteons in fossil Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) bone from Bangka Island, southeastern Sumatra. Quaternary palaeontology and archaeology of Sumatra. (pp. 183-198) edited by Julien Louys, Paul C.H. Albers and Alexandra A.E. van der Geer. Canberra, ACT Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/ta56.2024.08
2024
Conference Publication
The Woman of Drybread: One person's life on the goldfields of Otago, New Zealand
Sohler-Snoddy, Anne Marie E., King, Charlotte, Kavale-Henderson, Lucy, Cooke, Karen, Miszkiewicz, Justyna, Petchey, Peter and Buckley, Hallie (2024). The Woman of Drybread: One person's life on the goldfields of Otago, New Zealand. 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 20-23 March 2024. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24928
2024
Journal Article
Comment on “assessing the extent of bone bioerosion in short timescales – A novel approach for quantifying microstructural loss [Quat. Int., in press https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.01.011]”
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Andronowski, Janna M. and Schotsmans, Eline M.J. (2024). Comment on “assessing the extent of bone bioerosion in short timescales – A novel approach for quantifying microstructural loss [Quat. Int., in press https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.01.011]”. Quaternary International, 685, 39-43. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.06.007
2024
Journal Article
Preclinical rodent models for human bone disease including a focus on cortical bone
Koh, Natalie YY, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J, Fac, Mary Louise, Wee, Natalie KY and Sims, Natalie A (2024). Preclinical rodent models for human bone disease including a focus on cortical bone. Endocrine Reviews, 45 (4), 493-520. doi: 10.1210/endrev/bnae004
2024
Journal Article
Vitamin D status in post-medieval Northern England: Insights from dental histology and enamel peptide analysis at Coach Lane, North Shields (AD 1711-1857)
Snoddy, Anne Marie E., Shaw, Heidi, Newman, Sophie, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Stewart, Nicolas A., Jakob, Tina, Buckley, Hallie, Caffell, Anwen and Gowland, Rebecca (2024). Vitamin D status in post-medieval Northern England: Insights from dental histology and enamel peptide analysis at Coach Lane, North Shields (AD 1711-1857). PLoS One, 19 (1 January) e0296203, 1-23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296203
2023
Journal Article
Rib remodelling changes with body size in fossil hippopotamuses from Cyprus and Greece
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Athanassiou, Athanassios, Lyras, George A. and van der Geer, Alexandra A. E. (2023). Rib remodelling changes with body size in fossil hippopotamuses from Cyprus and Greece. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30 (4), 1031-1046. doi: 10.1007/s10914-023-09688-y
2023
Book
Proceedings of The Royal Society of Queensland
Julien Louys and Justyna J. Miszkiewicz eds. (2023). Proceedings of The Royal Society of Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The Royal Society of Queensland. doi: 10.53060/PRSQ23
2023
Journal Article
Investigating the effectiveness of online bioarchaeology education through participant survey of a cohort of international adult learners
Ward, Stacey M., Barker, Anna-Claire L., Shoocongdej, Rasmi, Wangthongchaicharoen, Naruphol, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., King, Charlotte L. and Halcrow, Siân E. (2023). Investigating the effectiveness of online bioarchaeology education through participant survey of a cohort of international adult learners. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 11 (4), 421-433. doi: 10.1017/aap.2023.16
2023
Journal Article
Human femur morphology and histology variation with ancestry and behaviour in an ancient sample from Vietnam
Walker, Meg M., Oxenham, Marc F., Vlok, Melandri, Matsumura, Hirofumi, Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen, Trinh, Hoang Hiep, Minh, Tran T and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2023). Human femur morphology and histology variation with ancestry and behaviour in an ancient sample from Vietnam. Annals of Anatomy, 247 152054, 152054. doi: 10.1016/j.aanat.2023.152054
2023
Journal Article
Interim report on the vertebrate deposits recovered from the Capricorn Caves, Rockhampton, Queensland
Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Ferguson, Kyle, Kemp, Justine, Wood, Rachel, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Dias Guimarães, Nathalia R., Higgins, Pennilyn, Travouillon, Kenny J., Hocknull, Scott A., Webb, Gregory E. and Price, Gilbert J. (2023). Interim report on the vertebrate deposits recovered from the Capricorn Caves, Rockhampton, Queensland. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 47 (4), 1-28. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2022.2157486
2023
Book Chapter
Bone biology and microscopic changes in response to behaviour
DeMars, Lily J.D., Torres-Tamayo, Nicole, Hirst, Cara Stella and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2023). Bone biology and microscopic changes in response to behaviour. Behaviour in our bones: how human behaviour influences skeletal morphology. (pp. 7-38) edited by Cara Stella Hirst, Rebecca J. Gilmour, Kimberly A. Plomp and Francisca Alves Cardoso. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-821383-4.00009-7
2023
Journal Article
Insights into dwarf stegodon (Stegodon florensis florensis) palaeobiology based on rib histology
Basilia, Pauline, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Louys, Julien, Wibowo, Unggul Prasetyo and van den Bergh, Gerrit D. (2023). Insights into dwarf stegodon (Stegodon florensis florensis) palaeobiology based on rib histology. Annales de Paléontologie, 109 (4) 102654, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102654
2022
Edited Outputs
Proceedings of The Royal Society of Queensland 131
Proceedings of The Royal Society of Queensland 131. (2022). 131
2022
Journal Article
Female bone physiology resilience in a past Polynesian Outlier community
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Buckley, Hallie R., Feldman, Michal, Kiko, Lawrence, Carlhoff, Selina, Naegele, Kathrin, Bertolini, Emilie, Guimarães, Nathalia R. Dias, Walker, Meg M., Powell, Adam, Posth, Cosimo and Kinaston, Rebecca L. (2022). Female bone physiology resilience in a past Polynesian Outlier community. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 18857, 1-16. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-23171-3
2022
Journal Article
Cartesian coordinates in two-dimensional bone histology images for quaternary bone remodelling research
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Louys, Julien and Mahoney, Patrick (2022). Cartesian coordinates in two-dimensional bone histology images for quaternary bone remodelling research. Open Quaternary, 8 (1) 12, 12. doi: 10.5334/oq.117
2022
Journal Article
Bone histology in a fossil elephant (Elephas maximus) from Pulau Bangka, Indonesia
Basilia, Pauline, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Nganvongpanit, Korakot, Zaim, Jahdi, Rizal, Yan, St, Aswan, Puspaningrum, Mika R., Trihascaryo, Agus, Price, Gilbert J., van der Geer, Alexandra A.E. and Louys, Julien (2022). Bone histology in a fossil elephant (Elephas maximus) from Pulau Bangka, Indonesia. Historical Biology, 35 (8), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2092850
2022
Journal Article
The lifestyles of Bronze Age Zagros highlanders at Deh Dumen, Iran: insights from midshaft femur cross‐sectional geometry and histology
Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Stewart, Tahlia J., Naseri, Reza and Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz (2022). The lifestyles of Bronze Age Zagros highlanders at Deh Dumen, Iran: insights from midshaft femur cross‐sectional geometry and histology. Archaeometry, 64 (5), 1270-1287. doi: 10.1111/arcm.12781
2022
Conference Publication
Paleohistopathology of Treponemal Disease in Human Bone from Taumako, Solomon Islands (700-300ybp)
Cooke, Karen M., Buckley, Hallie, Kinaston, Rebecca, Kiko, Lawrence and Miszkiewicz, Justyna J. (2022). Paleohistopathology of Treponemal Disease in Human Bone from Taumako, Solomon Islands (700-300ybp). 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Denver, CO United States, 23 March - 1 April 2023. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24514
2022
Conference Publication
Neanderthal infant growth reconstructed from virtual histology of deciduous teeth
Mahoney, Patrick, McFarlane, Gina, Smith, B. Holly, Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Cerrito, Paola, Liversidge, Helen, Mancini, Lucia, Dreossi, Diego, Veneziano, Alessio, Bernardini, Federico, Cristiani, Emanuela, Behie, Alison, Coppa, Alfredo, Bondioli, Luca, Frayer, David W., Radovcic, Davorka and Nava, Alessia (2022). Neanderthal infant growth reconstructed from virtual histology of deciduous teeth. 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Denver, CO United States, 23 March - 1 April 2023. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley & Sons.
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Social inequality and bone health in ancient human populations.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Caitlin D'Gluyas
Media
Enquiries
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