The FORTH Skull Model (FSM) project is funded by ICS-FORTH through a competitive internal seed funding grant. Using cutting-edge computer vision methodologies and high-quality data from people in Greece, FSM models the shape of the human skull aiming at answering several important research questions related to the geometry of human skulls. We build upon our pioneering work on large-scale 3D Morphable Modelling (3DMM) to develop a novel pipeline for the automatic construction of a dense 3DMM of skulls from collections of dry skulls that we digitize with high-precision 3D scanning. The FSM’s skull 3DMM, which we are developing, describes the dense shape variation across different individuals, being able to represent the 3D shape of a wide range of human skulls with a small number of parameters. The scientific results of FSM will be particularly beneficial for an array of different disciplines, including archaeology, biological and forensic anthropology, medical imaging, craniofacial and orthognathic surgery, human anatomy education and computer graphics.