Rachel Schats - Since September 2018, Rachel is Assistant Professor in Human Osteoarchaeology in the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. She studied archaeology with a specialisation in osteoarchaeology at Leiden University and University College London. Her PhD research aimed at gaining a better understanding of the physical consequences of medieval developments, such as urbanisation and commercialisation, by comparing rural and urban skeletal populations on the basis of disease, activity and diet. Most recently, Rachel is studying the distribution and impact of malaria in the medieval Netherlands. As part of this research, she focuses on various porotic lesions in the skeleton to study if the prevalence is correlated with geographic location in the Netherlands. In addition, she has taken a more detailed approach to the study of porotic lesions using (micro) CT scanning, comparing the morphology of the lesions throughout the skeleton.
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