Angelique Corthals

Angelique Corthals is a biomedical researcher and forensic anthropologist. She is an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY). Her focus in biomedicine is the etiology of autoimmune diseases; recently she has been studying whether or not COVID-19 originated zoonotically in bats.
Career.
Angelique completed her DPhil (PhD) at University of Oxford, St. Cross College in 2003. She then held faculty and curatorial positions at the University of Manchester, the American Museum of Natural History, Stony Brook University, and was the scientific director of the Stony Brook BioBank. She is currently an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.
Personal life.
Angelique grew up in Belgium and pursued degrees in violin and Slavonic studies before settling on biological anthropology.
She lives with her wife, Liliana M. Dávalos, on Long Island. As a lesbian, she is involved in visibility campaigns for LGBT+ people in STEM. 