Mélanie Frelat is currently employed as a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow (EVAN training network) at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Vienna.
She is a physical anthropologist and her research focuses on the application of geometric morphometrics and virtual anthropology to the study of long bones.

In the course of her Phd thesis, she worked on the variation of limb bones shape and body proportions during growth in modern and fossil human populations, and has developped a special interest in funerary anthropology, spanning a period of time from the Middle Paleolithic to the late Neolithic (Europe, South-East Asia).
She also participated in running some of the collections of Musée de l'Homme (NMNH, Paris) and in sharing her knowledge as a lecturer in several galleries housed by the French National Museum of Natural History.