Ester Oras, Associate professor, Department of Archaeology, Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Ülikooli 18, 50090, Tartu, Estonia;
Ester Oras is an associate professor in analytical chemistry and archaeology, and the director of Archemy lab at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She obtained her PhD degree in archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 2014, and has dedicated her career to bridging the humanities and natural sciences ever since. She is the first specialised archaeochemist in the eastern Baltics, who introduced the field of organic residue analysis to the region. Her main field of research is the use of biomolecular archaeology (lipids, proteins, isotopes) to study ancient diet, diseases and migrations, with a specialisation in pre- and protohistory of the Baltic Sea region. Visit her lab page at Archemy.ee