HuCS-ID Lab
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Spotlight on HuCS-ID student alumni
Tom Beresford
Tom graduated Honours with a First Class in the lab in 2022 for work entitled “The Accuracy of 3D Scanners for Recording Human Skeletal Anatomy”. He presented this work in-person at a special session for the Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Center (HHRRC) in Orlando USA during the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 2023. In 2024, Tom began a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (MChD) at ANU, attaining grades within the top 3% of his class. Also in 2024, he received a Faculty Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Led Activities (first-rate, unpaid, anatomy tutoring of his colleagues also enrolled in MChD). Tom’s Honours work is presently under consideration for publication with Forensic Science International.
Dr Hayley Fancourt
Hayley graduated with a First Class Honours in Science (2017). Hayley published one paper during her Honours year (FSI) and another one following degree completion (JFS). Hayley attained both the highest score for her final research presentation and won the Michael F. Hickey Memorial Honours Prize (highest overall Honours grade for the SBMS in that year). Hayley recently graduated Medicine from the Australian National University, where she also worked part time as an Anatomy Technical Officer.
Dr Jodi Caple
Obtained her PhD in 2018, graduating with 6 paper outputs from the PhD and received one of three Dean’s Awards for an Outstanding Thesis. Dr Caple now works as a Forensic Anthropologist & Postdoctoral Research Associate with SNA International at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, HI, USA.
Lab alumni
PhD
- Telena Hona: Correlations of human facial soft tissue thickness with body mass in sub-adults and adults as revealed by lateral radiographs and MRI
- Sean Healy: Craniofacial superimposition: Can machine learning improve focus distance estimation from real-world facial photographs
- Jeffrey Lynch: Computerized methods for de-commingling mixed human skeleton assemblages: New Automated Approaches Using Centroid Banding
- Jodi Caple: Fourier Analysis of Lateral Cranial Profiles for Predicting Sex and Ancestry in Forensic Anthropology
Honours
- Judy Magirin, Variation of Sphenoid Sinuses from Segmented CT and MR Multislice Reconstructions (active 2025)
- Yong Wei Xue, Nose Estimation from the Skull Using Ultra-high Rsolution CT Scans (active 2025)
- Robert Humphrey: An anatomical CT investigation of the eyeball relationships to the bony orbit
- Lachlan McInerney: The anatomical accuracy of mouth width estimation methods from the skull: Validation tests using 3D medical scans
- Jithya Joshy: A craniometric dataset to help detect South Asian skulls and filter their intake into Anatomy Teaching Schools
- Suhail Askarzai: Does Phalangeal Morphology Encode Side, Digit and Row as Relevant for Legal Medicine?
- Sean Healy: Improving identification for forensic craniofacial superimposition: The accuracy of subject-to-camera distance estimation from human face anatomy recorded in frontal and profile images.
- Tom Beresford: How good are 3D optical scanners and photogrammetry for scientific analysis of human bone anatomy?
- Te Wai Pounamu Telena Hona: Accuracies of Radiographic Comparison for Skeletal Identification
- Brianna Armstrong: Testing the accuracy of subject-to-camera distance estimation in craniofacial superimposition using palpebral fissure length
- Madeline Ashton: DNA tracking for embalmed specimens
- Chelsea Olditch: Radiographic Comparison for Human Identification
- Brandon Meikle: Patterns of Facial Soft Tissue Thicknesses as Measured in Large Samples by Ultrasound
- Jennifer Atkins: The utility of infracranial methods for sex and age estimation of contemporary Australians
- Hayley Fancourt: Pairwise matching of commingled long bones: a computerized approach using 3D elliptical Fourier analysis
- Redmond Lopez: Sex and Ancestry Variation of the Extracranial Space
- Ashleigh Yeap: Characterisation of Facial Muscle Morphology from Bony Attachments
- Emma Sievwright: Do Craniometrics Correlate with Facial Soft Tissue Thicknesses in a Living Adult Australian Sample
- Lachlan Munn: Posture and Expression Effects on Face Typology as Mapped by 3D Stereophotogrammetry for Forensic Face Identification
- Rory Preisler: The effect of Posture on Facial Soft Tissue Depths, Shorths and Shormaxes – Using B-mode Ultrasound
- Jodi Caple: Facial Soft Tissue Thicknesses of Australian Juveniles: Analysis of the Computed Tomography Tangent Method