Research at the Department
To enable scientific contributions on international top levels, as a comparably small department we conduct research projects with several cooperation partners in intra-university departments (Dept. Antique Sciences, Dept. Biosciences, Dept. Mathematics, …) as well as international partners in Europe (LMU Munich, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Universita degli Studi di Molise, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, …) and around the world (Michigan State University/USA, Chungnam National University/KOR, Sun Yat-Sen University/CHI, …)
Research projects at our department cover a wide spectrum of forensic sciences:
- Bioarchaeology
- Biomechanics
- Blood spatter analysis
- DNA transfer and secondary transfer
- Drowning diagnostics by diatome analysis
- Case-specific research
- Forensic entomology
- Microbiome analysis
- Morphological body changes for time since death estimation
- Postmortem decomposition of biomolecules for time since death estimation
- Postmortem DNA stability for identification purposes
- Proteome analysis
