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Short-listed (1 of 3) for the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Enterprise Activity

Winner ‘Highly Commended’ in the Knowledge Transfer Award in Blueprint Business Planning  Competition grand final.

Winner Ward Hadaway Science Award in Blueprint Business Planning Competition regional final

Member, American Academy of Forensic Science

Member, International Academy of Legal Medicine

Member, British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology

Member, Association of National Teaching Fellows

Member, Council of Forensic Science Educators

Choose your own murder: Non-linear narratives enhance student understanding in forensic science education

A re-evaluation of manner of death following the Vesuvius eruption at the Roman town of Herculaneum

Determining the Effectiveness of Noncontact Three‐Dimensional Surface Scanning for the Assessment of Open Injuries

Determining the effectiveness of non-contact three-dimensional surface scanning for the assessment of open injuries

The effect of different imaging techniques for the visualisation of evidence in court on jury comprehension

Professor Tim Thompson is Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology in the School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University. His area of expertise is in the decomposition of human remains after death - with particular interest in what happens when a skeleton or body is burnt. He is involved in identifying people from burnt remains and has had major media interest in his work on identifying remains at the ancient city of Herculaneum in Italy (the scene of the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD).

Tim has spent the last 20 years developing new methods to support the forensic and archaeological sciences through forensic anthropology. he has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books and his latest is Human Remains: Another Dimension – the application of imaging to the study of human remains. Other works include The Archaeology of Cremation: Burned Human Remains in Funerary Studies and Human Identity and Identification. He is senior editor for the Forensic Human Identification and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Royal Society of Biology and is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine.

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Archaeologists find evidence of neurons in glassy brain of Vesuvius victim

Scientists find preserved brain cells in ancient man crushed by volcano

Preserved brain tissue found in victim of ancient vesuvius eruption, scientists say

Vesuvius victims died slower than believed

Grim new research suggests some Vesuvius eruption victims experienced a slow death

Hot Mess: Towards a bioarchaeology of cremation

Advancing Forensics: Current and future direction

Entangled: Methods for differentiating bodies and physical identities

The relationship between research and learning and teaching

The development of digital resources for teaching skeletal  anatomy in the forensic sciences

Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology

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