Kate McGrath received a PhD in Human Paleobiology from the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) at The George Washington University. She was a Marie Skłodowska–Curie fellow at the University of Bordeaux and is currently affiliated with the CENIEH and CASHP. She studies the growth and development of nonhuman primates and fossil hominins including how stressful experiences disrupt growth. She developed a 3D method to quantify stress-related dental defects in the teeth of great apes, which she has since applied to Neanderthals, Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic humans, and Plio-Pleistocene hominins. She has also analyzed facial asymmetry as a sign of genetic and environmental stress in great apes. She is currently collaborating with the GAD team in the analysis of the Sima de los Huesos hominin dental remains with support from the Leakey Foundation.