Dr Saul is Senior Lecturer of Heritage and Tourism as well as Director of the Himalayan Exploration and Archaeological Research Team at Western Sydney University in Australia. Her research explores the intersection of archaeology, landscape, heritage, and development in the Himalaya, particularly in Nepal. She is a specialist in culinary prehistory across Eurasia and is trained in a range of residue analysis techniques (lipid residues, plant phytoliths, and starch analysis), which she has used to analyse paleodiet in prehistoric Germany, Denmark, and Japan. One of her overarching research interests is using ‘deep-time’ data to investigate issues of contemporary relevance for mountain landscapes, such as human-environment interactions, disaster management, food security and sustainable technologies. This transdisciplinarity in her work is supported by skills that span archaeological sciences, field-excavation, heritage, ethnography, and ethnobotany.