Research and Development

We are always looking for bright and enthusiastic students (BSc and MSc level) for a wide variety of projects. Please go to the contact page and leave your details and interests.

The research programs at the Netherlands Forensic Instituut cover a wide range of forensic topics. Our interests are mainly in the visualisation, isolation and extraction, analysis and interpretation of latent traces.

Currently we are working on new methods for:

• the visualisation of latent fingerprints, chemical imaging of latent traces,
• analysis of fingerprint left in or with blood,
• standardising analytical control measurements in several forensic disciplines and
• chemical analysis of latent fingerprints.

We are always looking for new insights and novel paths to get more out of traces. In collaboration with dr. Melanie Bailey we have described a novel method to extract different types of traces from a surface. In collaboration with dr. Simona Francese we have looked at a wider range of illicit materials to be extracted from fingerprints.