Kristy Winter
Forensic Anthropologist, Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus
Australian living in Cyprus
Kristy A Winter is a Forensic Anthropologist with the hiccups. Kristy is currently completing her Doctorate at Griffith University where she is investigating the recovery, storage and documentation of human remains to improve their identification in all situations, including post-conflict.
They received their Masters at Queensland University of Technology in 2019, with the focus on developing equations to assist with the identification of Australian missing persons from their skeletons.
Kristy previously worked for the:
- Forensic Unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Committee of Missing Persons in Cyprus
- Aditu Arkeologia
- Forensic Science Section of the International Criminal Court
- Griffith University
- Queensland University of Technology
- Queensland Health
- Queensland Fire and Emergency Services
- Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, and
- very briefly interned for Operation Identification and the Forensic Anthropology Centre at Texas State University
They previously presented a TEDx talk and published editorials in Science. You can visit Kristy’s website here.
Pronouns: she/they
