Dr Jenna Dittmar is a Research Fellow in Osteoarchaeology in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. As a specialist in bioarchaeology and palaeopathology, her research utilises a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions about health, disease and medical intervention in past populations.

She was previously employed as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (2016-2020) on the Wellcome funded project entitled, ‘After the Plague: Health and History of Medieval Cambridge’. This multidisciplinary project examined the historical and biological effects of the catastrophic medieval plague pandemic, known as the Black Death.