Ester Oras, Department of Archaeology, Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Ülikooli 18, 50090, Tartu, Estonia;
Ester Oras is the professor of archaeochemistry at the Institute Chemistry, and History and Archaeology, and the director of the Archemy Lab at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main field of research is biomolecular archaeology, especially ancient dietary reconstructions through stable isotope, lipidomic and proteomic analyses, but she has also experience in past disease, migration and provenance studies. Ester has been the member of ISBA since 2016, and served as the ISBA Society Programming and Affiliate coordinator in 2023-2025. Ester will liaise between SAS and ISBA to enhance the dialogue between the different fields of archaeological sciences and develop the multifaceted collaboration between the two societies.