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Background of Partner Caroline Polet: Dr. Caroline Polet holds a PhD Biological Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (ULB). She is biological anthropologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and she is associate professor of Palaeoanthropology at Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the ULB. Caroline is also a member of many human biological scientific associations and is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for the Diffusion of the Archaeological Information (ADIA) and the General Secretary of the Royal Belgian Society of Anthropology. Her research concerns the biological anthropology of human remains from the prehistory (Mesolithic period) until the 20th century. Her research has mainly focused on the reconstruction of diet and health in ancient human populations. Caroline is a member of the International Federation of University and was a previous treasurer of this association (Brussels Branch of the group). She further presented 121 communications to national and international congresses and is the (co)author of 3 books, 21 book chapters and 72 papers (12 in international journals with Impact factors). She co-organized 5 international congresses. She (co)supervised 27 master students in biology and archaeology (ULB, UCL, UGent and Université de Bordeaux 1, Université de Nancy, University of Sheffield, Université de Versailles)/ She is presently member of the follow-up committee of 5 PhD theses (ULB, KUleuven, Université de Bourgogne and Université de Lille I) and the promoter of 1 postdoctoral fellowship. She was involved in the creation of 10 scientific exhibitions. She also acts as a punctual referee for international journals in the field of palaeoanthropology.

 

5 Best Publications concerning the proposal subject (all are from International peer reviewed journals)

  1. Susanne C. & Polet, C. (eds), 2005. Dictionnaire d’anthropobiologie. Bruxelles, De Boeck Université, 401 p.
  2. Polet C., Louryan S. & Werquin J.-P. 2004. A Mesolithic case of odontoma ? Archives of oral Biology 49 (6): 501-506
  3. Bocherens H., Polet C.& Toussaint M., 2007. Palaeodiet of Mesolithic and Neolithic populations of Meuse Basin (Belgium): Evidence from stable isotopes.Journal of Archaeological Science 34 (1): 10-27.
  4. Beauthier J.P., Lefevre P., Werquin J.P., Meunier M., Quatrehomme G., Polet C. & Orban R., 2010. Palatine Sutures as an Age Indicator: a Controlled Study in Elderly. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 55(1): 153-158.
  5. Polet, C. & Bocherens, H., 2016. New insights into the marine contribution to ancient Easter Islanders' diet. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6: 709-719.

 

Background of key staff - Tara Chapman: Tara Chapman is the current recipient of an Action II Belspo Grant at RBINs (2012-2016) and is in the final stages of her doctorate on the Morphometric, functional and biomechanical analysis of a virtual Neandertal in comparison with anatomically modern humans undertaken at the Faculty of Medicine, ULB. She holds a Masters degree and a first class degree with honours in Biological Anthropology from the University of Kent, Canterbury. Her research interests are in Neandertals, fossil reconstruction, fossil hominid locomotion and the comparison of modern humans with Neandertals. She is responsible for the reconstruction of the virtual Spy II skeleton which has been printed in 3D and which is currently in different museums around the world, including RBINs and Espace de l’homme de Spy in Belgium. She is an experienced researcher and has previously worked in academic departments at the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent, where she also worked as a sessional teacher in Anthropology. She was also the Scientific Communication Expert for the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Project ‘Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence’ between 2008 and 2012. In addition to the Action II grant received in 2012, she also received funding for her Masters thesis in the form of an Alumni Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2005), the Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Scholarship (2006) and the Anthropology Departmental Scholarship at the University of Kent, UK (2006). In 2004 she also received the University of Kent, UK Faculty prize 2004 for outstanding excellence in examinations. She is a member of the following organisations: Société Royale Belge d’Anthropologie et de Préhistoire, Belgian Osteoarcheology and Physical Anthropology Society, European Society for the study of Human Evolution and the VPH Institute. 

 

5 Best Publications concerning the proposal subject (all are from International peer reviewed journals) 

  1. Chapman T, Moiseev F, Sholukha V, et al. 2010. Virtual reconstruction of the Neandertal lower limbs with an estimation of hamstring muscle moment arms. C R Palevol. 9(6-7):445-454.
  2. Chapman T, Semal P, Moiseev F, Louryan S, Rooze M, Van Sint Jan S. 2013. Application du logiciel de modélisation musculo-squelettique lhpFusionBox à une problématique paléo-anthropologique. Spyrou le Néandertalien marche ! Med. Sci. (Paris). 9(6-7):623-629.
  3. Hunter P, Chapman T, Coveney PV, et al. 2013. A vision and strategy for the virtual physiological human: 2012 update. Interface Focus;3(2).
  4. Chapman T, Lefevre P, Semal P, Moiseev F, Sholukha V, Louryan S, Rooze M, Van Sint Jan S. 2014. Sex determination using the Probabilistic Sex Diagnosis (DSP: Diagnose Sexuelle Probabiliste) tool in a virtual environment. Forensic Sci. Int. 234:189 e181-188.
  5. Chapman T, Sholukha V, Semal P, Louryan S, Rooze M, Van Sint Jan S. 2015. Femoral curvature variability in modern humans using three-dimensional quadric surface fitting. Surg. Radiol. Anat. 37(10):1169-1177.