Konstantinos Moraitis, Prof.

Head of the Forensic Anthropology Unit, Director of the Criminology Museum, NKUA
kmoraitis@med.uoa.gr

Konstantinos Moraitis, Ph.D., is a Professor of Forensic Anthropology and the Founder and
Head of the first Forensic Anthropology Unit in Greece, established at the Department of
Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens (NKUA). Since 2022, Prof. Moraitis has also served as the Director of the Criminology
Museum at the NKUA Medical School. In addition to his academic and research roles, Prof.
Moraitis has provided expert forensic casework for Greek courts, the Office of the Prosecutor,
and police authorities since 1999. His expertise includes field recovery, biological profiling,
positive identification, skeletal trauma analysis, estimating time since death, and age estimation
in living individuals. His international experience includes humanitarian missions in Bosnia,
Kosovo, and Cyprus with organizations such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Since 2019, he has led a
collaborative humanitarian project between NKUA and the Republic of Cyprus, conducting
forensic examinations of remains from the 1974 Turkish invasion to determine the cause and
manner of death. Prof. Moraitis has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters,
co-authored a definitive text on wound ballistics in Greek, and presented at various international
conferences. He is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.