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Dr Rachel Berry is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health at the University of New South Wales. Her academic qualifications include a BSc (Hons) in Forensic Anthropology, MSc in Forensic Human Identification, MPhil in Forensic Stable Isotope Profiling, PhD in Biomedical Engineering, and Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Specializing in biological anthropology and forensic anthropology, her research interests cover stable isotopes and human provenancing, post-mortem movement and skeletal disarticulation after death, changes in the morphometric characteristics of tattoos in human remains, quantifying human post-mortem movement from decomposition processes, evaluating time-lapse imaging for post-mortem interval estimation, human decomposition, and cybercrime including AI-generated child sexual abuse material, child exploitation, and virtual kidnapping. She supervises higher degree research in forensic anthropology, human anatomy, child sexual abuse, online abuse, and technologically-facilitated abuse.

Berry serves as Consultant Forensic Anthropologist for Forensic Human Identification and convenes ANAT2521 Biological Anthropology: Principles and Practices. She has received the UNSW Award for Educational Excellence (2023) and UNSW Award for Adaptability and Innovation (2020), along with grants such as the Australian Graduate School of Policing Criminology Theme Grant (2024, $5,800) for Trends and Patterns in AI Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material in NSW, and Charles Sturt University Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Seed Funding (2024, $10,000). Key publications include the journal articles 'A technical protocol for 3D observation and documentation of human decomposition' (2024, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences), 'Post-mortem movement and skeletal disarticulation after death' (2023), 'Changes in the morphometric characteristics of tattoos in human remains' (2023), 'Quantifying human post-mortem movement resultant from decomposition processes' (2020, Forensic Science International Synergy), 'Evaluating the utility of time-lapse imaging in the estimation of post-mortem interval: An Australian case study' (2019), and earlier works on gastrointestinal physiology such as 'Patterns of Abnormal Gastric Pacemaking After Sleeve Gastrectomy Defined by Laparoscopic High-Resolution Electrical Mapping' (2017, Obesity Surgery) and the book chapter 'Stable isotopes and human provenancing' (2014, Advances in Forensic Human Identification).