Elena F. Kranioti
Assistant Professor, Medical School

FMU / Elena Kranioti, MD, PhD / Grants

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2018: Munro Research grant: Polyphonic Murders: a holographic biography of trauma. (PI)

2018: AAFS Humanitarian Grant: Towards establishing the first ever stable isotope ratio baseline in Crete (Greece) for forensic identification. (Sponsor: Humanitarian and Human Rights Resource Center of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences): (PI)

2017: UoE Innovation Initiative Grant: Polyphonic Murders: a holographic biography of trauma. (ID:GR003198) (PI)

2016: EPSRC grant: Devising new ‘age at death’ methods for forensic applications.This project is based on Prof Zioupos previous work and my original research idea and resulted in covering expenses of two student projects (Andrea Bonicelli, UoE and Hannah McGivern, University of Cranfield). The project is mainly based on material I acquired but the facilities in Cranfield are licensed for modern human tissue and equipped for histology and nanoidentation techniques fundamental to the work which HCA facilities are not (PI: Peter Zioupos,University of Cranfield, Co-I: EK UoE).

2016: UoE Division of Pathology Endowment Fund: Virtopsy.GR (Co-I)

2016: UoE Innovation Initiative Grant: Application of forensic craniofacial reconstruction methods to aid human identification in cold cases from Greece. (ID:GR002629) (PI)

2016: SHCA Seed-corn Fund: Virtopsy.GR: Application of postmortem CT scans in forensic casework (PI)

2016: UoE Division of Pathology Endowment Fund: Virtopsy.GR I am the principal researcher in this project which emerged as a collaboration between the Edinburgh Division of Pathology and the NMS Department of Radiology in Little France. (Co-I)

2015: CHSS Challenge Investment Fund: Analysis and reconstruction of the production of controlled divinatory cracks in Shang Dynasty oracle bones from the 13th and 12th century BCE held at the National Museum of Scotland. Collaboration with NMS and the Asian Studies Department, School of Divinity, UoE.I contributed to the application, designed the experimental process and provided training and supervision for the research assistantthat conducted the experimental process. (Co-I)

2015: CAHSS Challenge Investment Fund: Adorned Afterlife – Existential Craft is an interdisciplinary research network in partnership with the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) consisting of experts from the fields of Jewellery Design (ECA), Forensic Anthropology, Classics, History and Museology. I contributed by knowledge on the 3d reconstruction of artefacts through CT scans built upon my previous work on the Rhind Mummy. (Co-I)

2014: CAHSS Challenge Investment Fund: Mesh-to-mesh value similarity (MVS): A ground breaking method for accurate sorting of commingled remains. (PI)

2014: The University of Edinburgh, Munro research grant: Direct evidence of Interpersonal Violence in the Upper Paleolithic: The unique case of the Cioclovina hominid. (PI)

2013: SHCA Seed-corn and pump-priming research fund “Virtual histology: A non-invasive tool to study the human past”. (PI)

2012: Spanish Government Fund “Morphological evolution of the genus Homo. Effects of growth duration and encephalic increment” (CGL2012-36682) The principal investigator is Prof. Antonio Rosas (Natural History Museum (CSIC), Madrid, Spain). I was co-investigator contributing advice on specialized histological analysis following up from my previous collaboration in CSIC.Award: (Co-I)

2012: CAHSS Challenge Investment Fund: “Morphological and Histological Analysis of Sharp Force Trauma Patters using High Resolution Casts and Virtual Tools (GR000381). (PI)

2012: CAHSS KE grant: Villains Victims and Forensic Evidence. (PI)

2011: Edinburgh Development Trust -Innovation Initiative Grant: "3D imaging: Surface scanning and Hands on Amira 3D software training". (PI)

2011: The Carnegie Trust research grant: "Anthropological analysis of a Roman Cemetery population excavated in 34 Via Punica, Ibiza, Spain". (PI)

2010: Edinburgh Development Trust -Innovation Initiative Grant: "Cross sectional and surface histology Workshop: An application of Anthropological methods". (PI)

2008 Institute for Aegean Prehistory: Craniometric variation of the Ilida cemetery population. The principal investigator was Prof. Katerina Harvati, University of Tuebingen, Germany. I was co-investigator contributing specialized 3D analysis.(Co-I).

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