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Hugo Cardoso serves as Department Chair and Full Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. He joined SFU in May 2013 after holding a professorship at the University of Porto Medical School in Portugal and working as a researcher and curator at Lisbon's National Museum of Natural History. Cardoso earned his PhD in Anthropology from McMaster University in 2005, receiving the CAGS-UMI distinguished dissertation award the following year. He is the Co-Director of SFU's Centre for Forensic Research and heads the Juvenile Osteology (JUNO) group, which focuses on skeletal development in children.
Cardoso's research centers on physical anthropology, particularly juvenile osteology, bioarchaeology, and forensic anthropology. His work explores age estimation methods, stature and weight estimation techniques, dental development, and the impact of socioeconomic factors on skeletal growth patterns. He has published extensively on these topics and maintains active research funded by NSERC and SSHRC grants.
His research portfolio demonstrates a clear trend toward developing more inclusive and accurate methods for analyzing juvenile skeletal remains, with recent publications focusing on stature estimation formulas, growth patterns across different populations, and ethical considerations in skeletal collections. His work bridges forensic anthropology with historical and bioarchaeological investigations, examining how social, economic, and political changes affect skeletal development across time periods.
- CAGS-UMI distinguished dissertation award (2006)
- Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (2018)
Cardoso has supervised over 40 post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students throughout his career. Currently, he supervises one post-doctoral fellow (Dr. Angela Silva Bessa), five PhD students (Marianna Cervantes, Elena Sierra, Tabasom Ilkhan, Cathy Tran, and Pegah Goodarzi), one MA student (Deanna Alvarez), and co-supervises a PhD student (Katherine Nichols) working on unmarked graves at Indian Residential Schools. His research is funded by NSERC and SSHRC, including a Partnership Development grant awarded in August 2020 to support the C.O.M. COLLECTION project.
He leads the FROST Lab (Forensic Osteology Lab) and is actively involved in the C.O.M. COLLECTION project, which involves the transfer of unclaimed human remains from Portugal to SFU for research purposes. This controversial initiative has undergone extensive ethical review, receiving approvals from the Portuguese National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV) and the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (INMLCF), as well as multiple approvals from the Municipality of Lisbon.
