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Professor Ericka N. L'AbbéDirector of FARCRoom 5-9, Tswelopele, Prinshof Campus |
Prof EN L’Abbé is a Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Pretoria. She is board certified with the American Board of Forensic Anthropology (D-ABFA, 84) and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Her research interests include blunt force trauma and human variation. She actively manages a forensic anthropology laboratory in FARC, supervises postgraduate anthropology research, teaches undergraduate (human osteology, human evolution), and is involved in forensic anthropology casework. |
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Leandi LiebenbergLecturerRoom 2.1-9, NW1, Hatfield Campus |
Leandi Liebenberg has been working in the Department of Anatomy as a lecturer since 2016. She is involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching where she presents courses on forensic anthropology, biological anthropology, and research methodology. Her research interests include the quantification of human skeletal variation and improving methods used to establish the biological profile in anthropological analyses. She conducts forensic anthropological analyses as part of her duties at FARC, and is actively involved in the standardization of methods and proficiency training within the section. | |
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Gabriele C. KrügerCurator of the Pretoria Bone CollectionFirst Technical AssistantRoom 5-33, Tswelopele, Prinshof Campus |
Gabi Krüger is a First Technical Assistant in the Department of Anatomy, where she works with the lecturing and other technical staff members to prepare practicals and study opportunities for medical, dental and paramedical students. She is also the coordinator of the Forensic Anthropology Laboratory and the curator of the Pretoria Bone Collection, the Forensic Repository and the Archaeological Collection housed in the Department of Anatomy. She works closely with the members of the Victim Identification Centre (VIC) of the South African Police Service when dealing with forensic cases, as well as with both local and international researchers that make use of the skeletal collections. Her research is focused mainly on improving methods for estimating the biological profile in forensic case analysis, particularly techniques for estimating sex and ancestry. Other activities include forensic case analyses to aid in providing presumptive identifications for unknown skeletal remains and keeping databases for the analyses up-to-date. | |
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Yvette ScholtzSenior Technical AssistantRoom 2-2.8, NW1, Hatfield Campus |
Yvette Scholtz manages student administration and communications in both the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences for Medical Sciences students, as well as the Faculty of Health Sciences for BSc Honours programmes. | |
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Okuhle SapoTechnical AssistantRoom 5-8, Tswelopele, Prinshof Campus |
Okuhle Sapo is a technical assistant at the Department of Anatomy, University of Pretoria. He has a keen interest in trauma analysis and ground-penetrating radar surveying and has had the privilege to be involved in grave surveying and detection cases that have involved the redressing of past wrongs namely in Dukatole, Aliwal North and Middelburg, Mpumalanga. His research focus for his MSc was to ascertain the cranial variation among the nine ethnic groups of South Africa with the objective of creating a database that will be used to estimate the ancestry of unknown skeletal remains. This is in the effort of refining the broad ancestral group that is defined as black with many subgroups when it relates to the South African context. |
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Dr Alison F. RidelPostdoctoral ResearcherRoom 5-10, Tswelopele, Prinshof Campus |
Dr Alison Ridel trains and supervises students at FARC in various methods involving 3D imaging and geometric morphometric analysis. | |
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Dr Linda MbekiPostdoctoral Researcher |
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Alieske HaggResearch Assitant: Forensic Case AnalysisRoom 5-34, Tswelopele, Prinshof Campus
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Alieske Hagg assists in analysing and peer reviewing forensic cases for the South African Police Services. | |
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Maritza LiebenbergResearch Assitant: Forensic Case Analysis and ANA122Room 5-8, Tswelopele, Prinshof Campus |
Maritza Liebenberg assists with analysis and peer reviews of forensic cases, as well as assisting Prof L'Abbé with administrative and teaching assistance in the ANA122 Human Osteology module for 1st year undergraduate Medical Sciences students. Her MSc (completed in 2020) assessed the magnitude of changes in osteometrics associated with thermal alteration by comparing pre- and post-burned measurements in domestic pig femora. |
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Meg-Kyla ErasmusResearch Assitant: Forensic Case Peer Review and ANA215Room 5-34, Tswelopele, Prinshof Campus |
Meg-Kyla Erasmus conducts peer reviews of forensic cases analysed by staff at FARC. She also assists Prof L'Abbé with the ANA215 Introduction to Biological Anthropology module by preparing and presenting lectures and practicals, marking tests and assignments, and general admin related to the module. Her MSc (completed in 2021) focused in variation of the auditory matrices in South African populations for automated cranio-facial approximations. | |
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Reabetswe KhonynaeResearch Assitant: Forensic Case Peer Review and ANA315Room 5-8, Tswelopele, Prinshof Campus |
Reabe Khonyane conducts peer reviews of forensic cases analysed by staff at FARC and assists Ms L Liebenberg with the ANA315 Forensic Anthropology lectures and practicals for 3rd year Medical Sciences students. She also assists with practicals taught to the BSc Honours students in ANA715, and is currently inventorying the Pretoria Bone Collection. |
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Professor Anna C. OettléExtraordinary Professor |
Department of Human Anatomy and Histology Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Ga-Rankua, South Africa |
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Professor Kyra E. StullExtraordinary Lecturer |
Department of Anthropology University of Nevada Reno, United States of America |
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Professor Dirk VandermeulenExtraordinary Professor |
Medical Imaging Research Centre Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven, Belgium |
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Dr Amélie BeaudetExtraordinary Lecturer |
Department of Archaeology University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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Dr Marine CazenaveExtraordinary Lecturer |
School and Anthropology and Conservation University of Kent Kent, United Kingdom |
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Professor Steven A. SymesExtraordinary Professor |
Emeritus Professor Mercyhurst University Department of Applied Forensic Sciences Medical Examiner's Office, Mississippi United States of America |
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