Professors
Professor Ate Kloosterman
As Professor of Forensic Biology at the UvA, Ate Kloosterman works towards the further development of forensic DNA research. One of his key research interests is non-human biological traces. He is also researching the development of methods for investigating human traces.
Maurice Aalders
Maurice Aalders is professor in Forensic Biophysics at the Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA) and focuses his research on the interface of applied physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences. He did earlier work on optical techniques for diagnostics in medical oncology, such as fluorescence imaging and optical coherence tomography.
Shirly Berends PhD
I teach “Criminalistics and Analytical Chemistry” and “Chain of Evidence” at the University of Amsterdam. I have a background in physics and chemistry and earned my PhD working with techniques for the (trace) elemental analysis of glass: Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS).
Professor Radboud Winkels
My name is Radboud Winkels and I am associate professor in Computational Legal Theory at the Law Faculty of the UvA. My background is in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. I coordinate the course on “Reasoning and Formal Modelling” and chair the Program Committee of Forensic Science.
Liesbeth Smits PhD
I am an archaeologist and physical anthropologist working at the department of Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. Within this master’s programme I am a lecturer in the course “Complex Crime Scenes” and the coordinator of the course ”Physical and Forensic Anthropology”.