Katie has over 15 years of experience in the excavation and analysis of human remains dating from the Mesolithic to the 19th century from a wide variety of sites in the UK, Germany, Jordan, Turkey, Ethiopia and Romania. She completed her PhD on the Archaeology and Osteology of Human Decapitation at the University of Winchester in 2012. She has held research posts at the University of Winchester and the German Archaeological Institute, as well as working for a number of commercial archaeology companies in the UK and Germany. She is also a Consultant Osteoarchaeologist based in Berlin. Her research interests include the analysis and interpretation of peri-mortem traumatic injuries to the skeleton and the osteology of leprosy, and she has authored or co-authored a number of books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal papers.