Rate My Professor Justyna Miszkiewicz

Dr Justyna Miszkiewicz is an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Anthropology from the University of Kent (2014), a Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced) from the same institution, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education from the University of Kent. Her career includes roles as ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow, Senior Lecturer, and Lecturer at the Australian National University in Canberra for nearly seven years. She previously served as Martin & Temminck Fellow at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands over the last decade, Research Assistant in medicine at Imperial College London, and various teaching positions including tutoring, lab demonstration, sessional lecturing, and lecturing at the University of Kent for about eight years until 2014.

Miszkiewicz specializes in skeletal histology applied to bioarchaeology, biology, biomedicine, forensics, and palaeontology, investigating how environment and societal structures impact skeletal growth and health. Her ARC Future Fellowship (2025-2029) project, "Why do we lose bone mass? Social and temporal dynamics of a silent disease," examines bone metabolism dynamics. Awards include the ARC Future Fellowship, ARC DECRA Fellowship, Martin & Temminck Fellowship, and Trail-Crisp Medal (2024) from the Linnean Society of London for contributions to microscopy in natural history studies. She holds leadership positions as Vice-President of the Australasian Society for Human Biology, Editor-in-Chief of Anthropological Review, former Treasurer of the Australasian Society for Human Biology, and previous editorial roles with The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, Scientific Reports, and Anthropological Review. Her research has attracted approximately $1.7 million in funding as principal investigator, totaling $3.3 million including collaborations. Key publications encompass "Age-dependent change and intraskeletal variability in secondary osteons of elderly Australians" (2024, Journal of Anatomy), "Unravelling taphono-myths. First large-scale study of histotaphonomic changes and diagenesis in bone from modern surface depositions" (2024, PLoS One), "Preclinical rodent models for human bone disease including a focus on cortical bone" (2024, Endocrine Reviews), "Vitamin D status in post-medieval Northern England: Insights from dental histology and enamel peptide analysis at Coach Lane, North Shields (AD 1711-1857)" (2024, PLoS One), and "Interdisciplinarity of secondary osteons: relevance of bioarchaeological and palaeontological research in biomedical cortical bone histology studies" (2025, Bone Reports). She has 96 works listed on UQ eSpace from 2011 to 2025.