Erin H. Kimmerle, Ph.D. is the Executive Director and Founder of the Florida Institute for Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science (IFAAS) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Kimmerle's research in forensic anthropology is focused on long term missing and unidentified persons, cold case investigations, forensic art, and skeletal trauma. As such, she leads the USF Forensic Anthropology Laboratory providing technical services to medical examiners and law enforcement around the country, and she created the USF Human Donation Program and Facility for Outdoor Research in Forensic Anthropology, which is comprised of a 3.4-acre facility for multidisciplinary research in forensic anthropology, legal medicine, and related sciences. Previously, Kimmerle worked with the United Nations conducting international war crime investigations. Since then she developed a number of international projects researching human identification methods and documentation of mass burial locations in Asaba, Nigeria for the National Institute of Justice, and she implemented the use of forensic art and facial imaging for the International Committee of the Red Cross. She also collaborated with National Geographic Explorers in the recent search for Amelia Earhart's remains. Kimmerle spearheaded and currently oversees a number of state-wide projects in Florida including the Florida Cold Case Initiative; the Art of Forensics; Missing in Florida Day; and most notably the Investigation into Deaths and Burials at the Former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida, for which she received the prestigious AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award in 2020. Kimmerle's work as a forensic anthropologist extends beyond the field and the classroom as she has helped produce a two-hour documentary on the Dozier School Burial Ground for Lifetime Movie Network. She has also been featured as an expert in several documentary programs about Cold Cases and has been interviewed by many news organizations related to her work including the Associated Press, CNN, Washington Post, Forbes Magazine, New York Times, Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald, National Geographic, Forensic Science Magazine, and NPR. Kimmerle is the author of the book, We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys, and she is the the co-author of the book, Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries in Human Rights Abuse and Armed Conflict (with Jose Pablo Baraybar, CRC Press, 2008). She has published and presented more than 200 articles, book chapters, and scientific reports and presentations, and she has received numerous grants from organizations such as the National Institute of Justice and the National Science Foundation. She was the 2017 recipient of the Hillsborough County Bar Association's Liberty Bell Award. She is also a Member of the Vidocq Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and a Member of the National Institute of Justice's Cold Case Working Group. Kimmerle also serves as an Advisory Board Member for the International Homicide Investigators Association as well as the Cold Case Advisory Commission for the Florida Sheriff's Association.