Research directions
Evaluation of forensic evidence
Development of a European Standard for evaluative reporting: ENFSI monopoly funds through the European Commission: "Strengthening the Evaluation of Forensic Results across Europe (STEOFRAE)".
Extension to Switzerland.
Thesis supervision in the area of fibre evidence and the value of DNA evidence at activity level.
Identification of marks in general
Active in research in the areas of fingerprints, footwear marks, tool marks and firearms identification.
Statistical value of fingerprint evidence
Project funded by the US defence department (TSWG) dedicated to the statistical analysis of partial fingerprints (contract DAAD05-03-C-0038) from 2004 to 2006 in collaboration with the Forensic Science Service (UK)
Project (2006-2008) under contract through TSWG and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) (Task IS-FE-2478 / contract W91CRB-06-C-5005). The project aims at developing a topological approach to assess the evidential contribution of partial fingerprints taking advantage of level 2 and level 3 features
Project (2011-2013), financed by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ contract 2010-DN-BX-K267) on "Improving the Understanding and the Reliability of the Concept of "Sufficiency" in Friction Ridge Examination". Project conducted in collaboration with PennState University.
Project (2017-2019) financed by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ contract 2016-R2-CX-0060) on the "Occurrence and Utility of Latent Print Correspondences Insufficient for Identification". Project conducted in collaboration with Stoney Forensics (USA).
Project (2018-2020) financed by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ contract 2017-DN-BX-0170) on the "Testing the Accuracy and Reliability of
Palmar Friction Ridge Comparisons: A Black Box Study", Project conducted in collaboration with Research Triangle International (USA).
Project (2019-2021) financed by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ contract 2017-DN-BX-0170) on the "Coping with Close Non-Matches in Latent
Print Comparison (re-) Training". Project conducted in collaboration with Research Triangle International (USA).
In addition PhD researches are devoted respectively to (1) the use of AFIS technology for assessing the strength of evidence of partial fingerprints; (2) the issues arising from the use of AFIS in a "lights out" identification model, (3) the statistical value of palmar impression and (4) the value determination by experts.
Biometrics
Projet MBioID: Multimodal Biometrics for Identity Documents (2004-2006) consacré à l''évaluation de techniques biométriques financé par le fondation BCV. Collaboration avec le Dr. Andrzej Drygajlo, Institut de traitement des signaux, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
Partenaire du projet Européen INGRESS 2013-2017 (Innovative technology for Fingerprint Live Scanners (INGRESS) financé par le 7ème programme cadre Européen (accord N°: 312792).
Two PhD projects devoted to the use of facial recognition systems in forensic science.
