
Dr. Robert C. Power MIAI
Robert leads the Evolution of Dietary Diversity and the Transition to Agriculture in Europe Project. He is also a research fellow at the UCD School of Archaeology and an associate member of the Earth Institute. Previously, he worked at the Max Planck for Evolutionary Anthropology and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He specialises in studying microbotanical remains in dental calculus and sediments to understand ancient diets.
UCD Page
robert.power(at)ucd.ie

Prof. Meriel McClatchie FSA, MIAI
Meriel is an associate professor at UCD School of Archaeology, a member of the Earth Institute and director of the UCD Ancient Foods Research Group, and Founder and Director of UCD Archaeobotany Laboratory..
UCD Page
meriel.mcclatchie(at)ucd.ie

Prof. Cynthianne Spiteri
Cynthianne is a researcher at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology at the University of Turin and an extraordinary professor at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
cynthianne.spiteri(at)unito.it

Meaghan Mackie
Meaghan is a PhD candidate in the group, who works with palaeoproteomics and organic residue analysis on human dental calculus to explore diet in Neolithic Ireland. She is also developing a workflow to facilitate co-extraction of palaeoproteomics, organic residues and microbotanical remains on archaeological samples.
UCD Page
meaghan.mackie(at)ucdconnect.ie

Prof. Beatrice Demarchi
Beatrice is an associate professor of Archaeology at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology (Metodologie della Ricerca Archeologica) at the University of Turin. .
Unito page
beatrice.demarchi(at)unito.it

Dr. Stephen Buckley
Dr. Stephen Buckley is a Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at the
University of York, UK. Having studied the materials employed in mummification
across four continents, from the iconic mummies of ancient Egypt to the mummies of Peru, he has been an archaeological chemist for excavations in the Valley of the Kings since 1993. His PhD was on the embalming materials used in ancient Egyptian mummification. ’.
He has pioneered a new and highly specialised area of research on the chemical analysis of dental calculus (tartar), with his collaborator Karen Hardy, to reveal major insights into ancient diets and environments, from Victorian period individuals to a 1.2 million year-old hominin, and recognised in ‘Archaeology’ magazine’s ‘Top 10 Discoveries’ in 2012 for findings on the ingestion of medicinal plants by Neanderthals. Continuing his research on dental calculus, he has been part of the ERC project: ‘FoodTransforms’, before joining the Power Plants project and
publishing with Karen in ‘Nature Communications’ on ‘The human consumption of seaweed and freshwater aquatic plants in ancient Europe’.
sb55(at)york.ac.uk

Prof. Domingo Carlos Salazar Garcia
Domingo is a research professor at the Departament de Prehistòria, Arqueologia i Història Antiga at the Universitat de València. He is also an Honorary Research Affiliate with the Department of Geological Sciences, at the University of Cape Town.
Universitat de València page
domingocarlos.Salazar(at)uv.es

Glenn Gibney
Glenn holds an M.A. in Human Osteoarchaeology from University College Cork. He works as a commercial osteoarchaeologist and senior archaeologist for Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit (ACSU). He is a member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland and is Secretary of the Irish Association of Professional Osteoarchaeologists. He recently published the results of an excavation of a Late Iron Age/Early Medieval cemetery in Kildare, Co. Kildare (JKAS Vol. XXIV, 2023).
Archaeological Consultancy Services page
glenn(at)acsu.ie