Samantha Brown leads the Palaeoproteomics Laboratory at CENIEH. She holds a PhD in Archaeological Science from the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthrology and was formally the Junior Group Leader for Archaeo- and Palaeoproteomics at the University of Tübingen. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on Palaeolithic and Stone Age assemblages where she extracts and analyses proteins from bones and teeth to better understand hominin subsistence strategies and the survival of proteins in deep time. In particular, her research focuses on the analysis of highly fragmented bones which have lost the diagnostic features necessary for taxonomic identification through macroscopic analysis. Using assemblages like these, Dr. Brown has identified several Middle Palaeolithic hominin remains which had otherwise been overlooked in the archaeological record. Currently she is working on several projects across Europe and Africa.