Caroline Sturdy Colls, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Forensic Archaeology and Genocide Investigation at Staffordshire University. She is also the Research Lead of the Centre of Archaeology at the same institution.

She led the first forensic archaeological investigation at Treblinka extermination and labor camps (Poland). In August 2015, she installed a new permanent exhibition at the Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Treblinka entitled “Finding Treblinka.” She has led forensic archaeological investigations at several other Holocaust sites across Europe, including in Adampol (Poland), Bergen-Belsen (Germany), Semlin (Serbia) and Alderney (Great Britain). She is the author of numerous publications concerning forensic and Holocaust archaeology. Her most recent volume “Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions” was published by Springer in 2015.