Education and work experience
Trainings
Post-doc research at the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA, Wiesbaden, Germany)
Title of the work "Analysis of organic pigments in automotive paints". Grant from the Swiss National Foundation
1997
Allemagne
Diploma in forensic science and criminology, university of Lausanne, Switzerland
1990
Suisse
Certificate in analytical chemistry, faculty of science, university of Lausanne, Switzerland
Suisse
PhD in forensic science. Thesis entitled "Automotive paint in criminalistic", university of Lausanne, Switzerland
1996
Suisse
Work experience
Expertise in the area of microtraces
Asked regularly to act as expert witness in the area of microtraces (paint, polymers, textile damages, contaminations,...)
Suisse
Technical assesor for accreditation bodies
Acts on a regular basis as technical auditor for national accreditation bodies to assess compliance of forensic laboratories against ISO 17025. The following forensic areas are covered: paint, textile fibre, glass and taggant.
Suisse
Competences
Activities at the ENFSI (European Network of Forensic Science Institutes)level
Active member of the paint (EPGT, European Paint, Glass and Taggant) and textile fibres groups (ETHG, European Textile and Hair group). Steering comittee member of the ETHG.
Member of the Education and Training taskforce from ENFSI.
Work on the European project "STEFA G5 Development of a Training and Education Concept for Forensic Hair and Fibre Experts"
and “Development of E Learning Concept Phase 2 - Evaluative Reporting and Interpretation, Textile Damage and Raman Spectroscopy Courses”.
Organizer of several ENFSI workshops in the area of microscopy, on line learning and interpretation.
Pedagogical innovation
Interest in teaching and pedagogical innovations
- Interactive microscopy course and peer instruction.
- Virtual Campus Switzerland, online microscopy course.
- COIL project (Collaborative Online International Learning) Chemical criminalistics of unusual traces with the universities of Trois-Rivière, Canada and Sam Huston state, USA.
