Eugénia Cunha

Eugénia Cunha has a PhD in Physical Anthropology (University of Coimbra) and since 2003 is a full professor at the University of Coimbra. She is the founder and the coordinator of the Forensic Anthropology Laboratory of University of Coimbra.

She acts as a National Consultant in Forensic Anthropology for the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal since 1997 where she became the forensic anthropologist of the South Delegation in 2004.

Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and Co-Founder and President of FASE- Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe, 2009-2015. In 2014 she was certified as a C-FASE- Honoris Causa in Forensic Anthropology by FASE/IALM , International Academy of Legal Medicine. Founder member and scientific consultant of ABRAF- Associação Brasileira de Antropologia Forense (Brazilian Association of Forensic Anthropology), since 2014. Became a member of Pathology and Anthropology Sub-group, Interpol DVI Working Group, in 2016.

Eugénia Cunha has 31 years of experience with human bones and her field and laboratorial work is developed in several countries. Coordinated the 5 forensic anthropology missions to Guinea-Bissau, 2008-2010, to exhume and identify the Portuguese soldiers who died in the colonial war during the sixties and seventies. She was the forensic anthropologist of the mission to retrieve the body of a Portuguese military from a mass grave in East Timor (2003). In Mali, December 2013 –May 2014, she was the forensic anthropologist for JRR- Justice for Rapid Response.