Michaela Harbeck is curator at the SNSB, State Collection for Anthropology in Munich. She received her PhD and postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in Biological Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. There she was working as an assistant professor before changing to her current position. She is co-author of two standard textbook for biological anthropology in German language and of many scientific articles dealing with all areas of Osteolarchaeology. The focus of her research, however, is on migration and living conditions in (early-) medieval times.