Cláudia Umbelino is a biological anthropologist devoted to the study of past human populations through the analysis of human skeletal remains in a biocultural perspective, working occasionally in forensic contexts. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University de Coimbra and teaches various courses in the BA program in Anthropology, the Master program in Human Evolution and Biology, and the Master program in Forensic Anthropology. She has performed numerous paleobiological analyses of human skeletal series with quite diverse chronologies, ranging from the Mesolithic to the Modern period. Her current research interests mainly concern the dietary reconstruction, paleopathology and the appraisal of mobility patterns of past human communities through stable isotope analysis, particularly from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. Besides laboratorial work, she is also involved in archaeological fieldwork, being responsible for the area of Biological Anthropology on the archaeological excavations of: Cabeço da Amoreira, Muge shellmidden (late Mesolithic) and Cueva de la Dehesilla (Early Neolithic), Cádiz, Spain.