Dr. Cristina Cattaneo is a forensic pathologist and anthropologist, currently a Full Professor of Legal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) and Director of LABANOF, Laboratorio di Antropologia e Odontologia Forense. She has been actively involved with the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the creation of a national database for unidentified human remains and since 2014 has been the medico-legal coordinator for the Governmental Office of the Commissioner for Missing Persons for the identification of dead migrants. She also coordinates the medico-legal activities of victims of maltreatment and torture and unaccompanied minors in Milan. She is a forensic pathology and anthropology expert for various courts in Italy and occasionally in Europe, President of FASE (Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe), a member of the Swiss DVI (Disaster Victim Identification) team, and Co-Editor in Chief for the Journal of Forensic Science International.