Soren Blau is the Senior Forensic Anthropologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM) and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University. She undertakes domestic and international forensic anthropology casework, as well as lectures and delivers training to forensic practitioners and related stakeholders in Australia and overseas In 2013 Sorenwas awarded The Sir William Kilpatrick Churchill Fellowship to study technical aspects of analysis and interpretation of skeletal trauma in medico-legal investigations.