CZERMAK Andrea

Dr. Andrea Czermak is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. She is a trained biologist who specializes in sequential tooth dentine analysis to reconstruct early life histories of individuals. Andrea has developed and applied new refined methods for dentine analysis and micro-sampling. She is particularly interested in childhood and adolescence, stress and crisis events, subsistence strategies and mobility during times of social and climatic changes. Andrea has previously worked on human teeth from the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Late Antiquity excavated in Germany, France, Spain, Chile, China and Britain. Since 2017 she has been a Research Associate involved in several collaborative projects. Within the BAP, Andrea applies stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes on serial micro-samples of human tooth dentine and fluorescence microscopy on tooth thin sections to identify potential stress markers.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Tooth dentine micro-sampling, Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis, Collagen preservation, Fluorescence microscopy