Soren Blau

Soren Blau is the Senior Forensic Anthropologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University, Founding Fellow Faculty of Science, The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and recipient of a Churchill Fellowship (2013). Soren is also currently the Chair of the Medical Sciences Scientific Advisory Group and a member of the INTERPOL Disaster Victim Identification Anthropology Sub-Group. Soren undertakes domestic forensic anthropology casework and has undertaken consultancies for the International Criminal Court and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Soren has participated in the recovery and analysis of human remains from archaeological and forensic contexts in numerous countries and has delivered training to forensic practitioners and related stakeholders in Australia and overseas. In addition to publishing peer reviewed journal articles and numerous book chapters Soren co-edited the Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology (2016).