John Willman is a Junior Investigator in the Laboratory of Prehistory (CIAS) at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. As a biological anthropologist, he primarily works on subjects spanning paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and dental anthropology. His research integrates a broad range of methodologies to reconstruct the lifeways of Pleistocene humans--namely, Neandertals and early modern humans--and early Holocene foraging and food producing peoples. Through his research he examines the complex interplay between human biology, environment, and culture. This biocultural approach emphasizes the contextual analysis of human skeletal remains within their broader archaeological and environmental contexts.