Who is Alice Roberts? Britain’s Most Historic Towns presenter and University of Birmingham professor

PROFESSOR Alice Roberts is back on our TV screens presenting Channel 4's, Britain's Most Historic Towns.

But the multi-talented host is also an anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, physical anthropologist, palaeopathologist and author. Here is everything you need to know about her impressive career...

Who is Alice Roberts?

Alice Roberts was born in Bristol in 1973, and is an anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, physical anthropologist, palaeopathologist, author and TV presenter.

She is also a Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham, a role which she has had since 2012.

Before this, she was a medical student at University of Wales College of Medicine and she graduated in 1997.

As well as presenting multiple TV shows, she has written eight books.

What programmes has Alice Roberts presented?

Alice Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode, and she went on to serve as a presenter in many episodes — including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology.

She is one of the regular co-presenters of BBC geographical and environmental series Coast.

Roberts wrote and presented a BBC Two series on anatomy and health entitled Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young, which screened from January 2007, and since she has presented many documentaries for the channel.

She also presented a four-part BBC Two series Digging For Britain, and has presented many BBC Two episodes of Horizon.

In 2015 she co-presented a 3-part BBC TV documentary with Neil Oliver, entitled The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice, and wrote a book to tie in with the series.

In 2016 she co-presented the BBC Two programme Food Detectives, which looks at food nutrition and its effects on the body.

What is Alice Roberts' family life like?

Alice Roberts lives with her husband and two children, a son and daughter.

She met her husband in Cardiff in 1997 when she was a medical student and he was an archaeology student.

Alice is a pescatarian, a humanist and a Patron of Humanists UK.

She is also an organiser of the Cheltenham Science Festival and school outreach programmes within the University of Bristol's Medical Sciences Division.

What academic work has Alice Roberts done?

After graduating in 1997, Roberts worked in clinical medicine as a junior medical practitioner with the NHS in South Wales for 18 months.

In 1998 she left clinical medicine and worked as an anatomy demonstrator in the Anatomy Department at the University of Bristol, becoming a lecturer there in 1999.

Roberts spent seven years working part-time on her PhD in paleopathology, the study of disease in ancient human remains, and received the degree in 2008.

She worked as Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy — she stated in 2009 that she was working towards becoming a professor of anatomy.

From August 2009 until January 2012, Roberts was a Visiting Fellow in both the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Department of Anatomy of the University of Bristol.

In February 2012, Roberts assumed a new post as the University of Birmingham's first Professor of Public Engagement in Science.

She is currently the Director of Anatomy for Bristol's Severn Deanery Postgraduate School of Surgery, and is also an Honorary Fellow of Hull York Medical School.