Zuzana Obertova

Zuzana Obertova is an Adjunct Research Fellow and Multi-Discipline Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia. She specializes in Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology, focusing on skeletal analysis, age/sex determination methods, and forensic protocols. Her work contributes to Sustainable Development Goals related to legal medicine and human rights. She has collaborated internationally on projects such as validating age estimation techniques in Indonesia and assessing forensic protocols across Europe.

Her research includes studies on sex estimation methods in Chilean populations, the historical analysis of the Batavia shipwreck burials, and the role of forensic anthropology in Swiss legal practices. She supervises datasets like the Histomorphometric Age-At-Death Estimates and has been involved in media coverage of AI tools for forensic investigations.

Zuzana’s work spans 86 publications, with an h-index of 19 and 1,213 citations. She has advised students such as Maggio, A. and collaborates with institutions globally.