Research Fellowship

Council of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences is pleased to announce the winners of the Two Academy Research Fellowships for 2021.

We had a significant number of applications with excellent proposals for research projects.

After careful deliberation we have selected two outstanding projects for the awards.

The projects selected by Council for the scholarship awards for 2021 are:

Dr Steven Michielsen:  Effect of fabric finishes on the formation of blood stains on textiles.

Dr Duncan Taylor:  Using machine learning to improve PCR.

Council offers congratulations and best wishes to the successful applicants.  We look forward to keeping informed of the progress of their research and the completion of their projects.