Research Scientist
E-mail: sweise@health.sdu.dk
Telephone: +45 6550 9529
Education:
10/2022: Forensic Search and Recovery of Clandestine Graves – “Hands On” Training. European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) SoC Forensic Archaeology Group; Portuguese Scientific Police Laboratory, Policia Judiciaria, Lisbon, Portugal.
09/2021: Forensic Search and Recovery of Clandestine Graves – “Hands On” Training. European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) SoC Forensic Archaeology Group; Forensic Sciences Department, University of Wrocław; Polish Municipality Police Dolny Śląsk.
07/2019: Forensic Archaeology I: Search, excavation, and documentation of clandestine graves. Netherlands Forensic Institute & Leiden University (Summer course).
02/2019: The Medicolegal Investigation of Recreational Diving Fatalities
American Academy of Forensic Sciences (Workshop), Baltimore, MD.
2015 – 2021: Scanning & 3D; Skarp vold; Skudlæsioner; Klinisk Retsmedicin: Den voldsramte Person. Dansk Selskab for Retsmedicin (Annual courses in Forensics).
2014: AAUS Scientific Diver & ESDP European Scientific Diver. Illyrian Coastal Exploration Program (ICEP) and International Centre for Underwater Archaeology (ICUA). Zadar, Croatia.
2009: PhD, Biological Medicine. ADBOU, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark. Funded by: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock. Thesis title: The Medieval Cemetery S:t Jörgen in Malmö: A Paleodemographic Analysis.
06-08/2004: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Ann Arbor, MI.
2001: MA., Pre- and Early History & Biological Anthropology. Universität Hamburg, Research laboratory: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig. Thesis title: Microstratigraphic Excavation and Analysis of the Burial of Bishop Rudolf of Schleswig: Method and Insight.
Employment:
06/2019 – present: Research Scientist, Forensic Anthropologist, ADBOU, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark.
04/2019 – 05/2019: Archaeologist, Øhavsmuseet Faaborg
01/2018 – 03/2019: Postdoc, ADBOU, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark.
07/2017 – 12/2017: Postdoc, University of Southern Denmark Department: Max Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging.
05/2015 – 06/2017: Postdoc, University of Southern Denmark. Project: Adult Age Estimated from New Skeletal Traits and Enhanced Computer-Based Transition Analysis (NIJ Grant 2014-DN-BX-K007). Department: Forensic Institute (ADBOU)
11/2014 – 04/2015: Divemaster, Blue Planet Divers, Koh Lanta, Thailand
2009 – 2014: Research Scientist, Department of Survival & Longevity, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. Project: Sex and Survival – Mortality Differences in the Past. (NIH Grant P01 AG031719-01A1).
01/2009 – 06/2009: Research Scientist, ADBOU, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark.
01/2003 – 12/2008: PhD student, Department of Survival & Longevity, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
08/2001 – 12/2002: Research Scientist, Department of Historical Anthropology and Human Ecology, University of Göttingen, Germany. Project: The Pre-Roman Iron Age Cemetery of Leese, Ldkr. Nienburg.
Research interests:
- Age and sex estimation from human skeletal remains
- Paleodemography
- Underwater Archaeology
- Microstratigraphic excavation
- Cremations
Publications:
Villa, C., Lynnerup, N., Boel, L.W.T., et al. (in press). “Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology in Denmark”. Scandinavian Journal of Forensic Science
Milner, G.R., Boldsen, J.L., Ousley, S.D. et al. (2021). “Great expectations: The rise, fall, and resurrection of adult skeletal age estimation”. Algee-Hewitt, B. F. B. & Kim, J. (ed.s): Remodelling Forensic Skeletal Age: Modern Applications and New Research Directions. Academic Press, s. 139-154.
Milner, G.R., Boldsen, J.L., Ousley, S.D. et al. (2018). “Selective mortality in middle-aged American women with Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH)”. PLoS ONE,13(8).
Boldsen, J.L., Milner, G.R., Weise, S., Lauritsen, J.M., Freund, U.H. (2015). Sex-related risks of trauma in medieval to early modern Denmark, and its relationship to change in interpersonal violence over time. International Journal of Paleopathology 9: 59-68.
Boldsen, J.L., Milner, G.R., Weise, S. (2015). Cranial vault trauma and selective mortality in medieval to early modern Denmark. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (6): 1721–1726.
Boldsen, J.L., Rasmussen K.L., et al. (2013). Schleswig: Medieval leprosy on the boundary between Germany and Denmark. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 70(3): 273–287
Wittwer-Backofen, U., Buckberry J. L., et al. (2008). Basics in paleodemography: A comparison of age indicators applied to the early medieval skeletal sample of Lauchheim. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 137(4): 384-396
Weise, S. (2008). Skelette – Zeitzeugen der Vergangenheit WissensMeer. Journal für die Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Region Rostock 10: 6-7.
