About

Christina Nielsen-Marsh was born in 1972 in Caerleon, Wales.  In 1993, she obtained a joint 1st class Honours Degree in History and Chemistry from the University of Surrey. Following her BA, she went on to study Bone Diagenesis (the processes affecting skeletal remains in the burial environment) for her doctoral thesis at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford. She continued her archaeological research at Universities in Newcastle, York and Michigan as a Welcome Trust Fellow and in 2004 arrived in Leipzig to take up a Research Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

In September 2007 Christina halted her scientific career to focus on art. She has exhibited her work in galleries in Leipzig, where she still lives.