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Distinguished Professor Claude Roux
Distinguished Professor Claude Roux is the Director of the UTS Centre for Forensic Science. His teaching and research activities cover a broad spectrum of forensic science, including trace evidence and chemical criminalistics, documents, fingerprints, forensic intelligence and the contribution of forensic science to policing and security.
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Dr Scott Chadwick
Dr Scott Chadwick is an alumnus of UTS, completing his undergraduate and PhD at the Centre for Forensic Science. He works across a range of areas in Forensic Science including fingermark detection, gunshot residue, document analysis and forensic intelligence.
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Dr Mackenzie de la Hunty
Dr Mackenzie de la Hunty is a forensic chemist, who joined us from the Australian Federal Police in 2022. She specialises in forensic education and training in tertiary and corporate environments and provides casework consultancy services. Her research is in fire investigation, and the development of latent fingermarks.
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Professor Shanlin Fu
Professor Shanlin Fu is a Forensic Toxicologist/Analytical Chemist who joined the Centre for Forensic Science in 2008. His research focuses on sensitive screening of poisons and drugs including drugs of abuse for clinical diagnosis, therapeutic drug monitoring and law enforcement applications.
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Dr Anjali Gupta
Dr Anjali Gupta is a Forensic Statistician (and/or Data Scientist) with interests in the fields of forensic evidence evaluation and interpretation. She is a part of the Centre for Forensic Science and collaborates within Mathematics and Statistics discipline.
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Professor Dennis McNevin
Professor Dennis McNevin investigates forensic problems using genetics and genomics. He has provided expert services for the Australian Federal Police (where he first began his forensic career), NSW Police Force and NSW Health Pathology Forensic and Analytical Science Service. Prior to joining the Centre for Forensic Science in 2018, he has held academic positions at the University of Canberra, the Australian National University and the University of Sydney.
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Dr Georgina Meakin
Dr Georgina Meakin is a Senior Lecturer at the UTS Centre for Forensic Science and an Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Centre for the Forensic Sciences. She teaches and supervises research on a range of topics within forensic biology, and occasionally provides advice and consultancy in casework. Her research centres on the transfer, persistence, prevalence and recovery of DNA, with a focus on informing crime scene practice and activity level evaluation.
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Dr Manoranjan Mohanty
Dr Georgina Meakin is a Senior Lecturer at the UTS Centre for Forensic Science and an Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Centre for the Forensic Sciences. She teaches and supervises research on a range of topics within forensic biology, and occasionally provides advice and consultancy in casework. Her research centres on the transfer, persistence, prevalence and recovery of DNA, with a focus on informing crime scene practice and activity level evaluation.
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Dr Marie Morelato
Dr Marie Morelato is a forensic scientist with teaching and research interests in general forensic science and forensic intelligence. This includes various areas using forensic case data to decipher organised systems (e.g. organised crime, security), e.g.the triangulation of data coming from different sources.
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Associate Professor Xanthe Spindler
Associate Professor Xanthe Spindler is a forensic scientist who teaches and supervises research projects across the areas of fingermark detection, chemical criminalistics and activity level interpretation.
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Dr Maiken Ueland
Dr Maiken Ueland is a forensic analytical chemist working across chemistry and forensic science. Her research is focused on human decomposition chemistry with a special interest in biomarkers in tissue and odour, and their use in criminal investigations.
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Associate Professor Jodie Ward
Associate Professor Jodie Ward has been the Director of the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER) since 2019. She is also the Program Lead of the National DNA Program for Unidentified and Missing Persons at the Australian Federal Police. This unique joint appointment facilitates her valuable contribution to the research, development and application of an interdisciplinary forensic human identification approach for death and disaster investigations in Australia.