Hilde Uytterschaut

Dr. Hilde Uytterschaut serves as a Tutor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen. Her expertise spans Physical Anthropology, Anatomy, and interdisciplinary fields including Philosophy and Cultural Studies. She specializes in skeletal analysis, forensic anthropology, and morphological studies of human remains. Her research often integrates statistical methods, such as principal component analysis and multivariate techniques, to address questions in sex/racial diagnosis and population affinities.

Her publications focus on topics like Plio-Pleistocene hominid dentition, skeletal analysis for disease and sex determination, and faunal studies of archaeological sites. Notable works include studies on Philippine population affinities and a thesis analyzing Gallo-Roman fauna in Belgium.

Currently affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), she contributes to academic discourse through peer-reviewed articles and interdisciplinary research.