Angelique Corthals

Dr. Angelique Corthals has been involved both off and on camera in the IMAX movie 'Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs', Discovery Channel 's 'Secrets of Egypt's Lost Queen', National Geographic's Explorer series 'Child Mummy Sacrifice' and most recently, in Nova's 'Bat Superpowers'. She has been a consultant for the television series 'CSI' and 'Bones'. Dr. Corthals is a biomedical researcher and forensic anthropologist who earned her DPhil (PhD) at the University of Oxford. Her work has focused on biomedical research in the US and abroad, including the study of the ecology of infectious diseases (including emerging disease such as COVID-19) and the link between metabolism and neurodegenerative diseases. Her work in forensic anthropology is done in both archaeological and criminal justice context all over the world, but specifically in South America and the Middle East. She worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as Curatorial Associate of the molecular and microbial collection from 2000 to 2006, the department of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester (UK) as Lecturer from 2006 to 2008 and is currently a tenured associated professor in the department of sciences at the City University of New York - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, as well as a consultant on diagnostic technology for both infectious and non-transmissible diseases for Doctors without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres). Dr. Corthals is an avid fencer (sabre), rower and violinist.