Victor started following the work of Rosamunde van Brakel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, LSTS (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society).
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Post-Doc, School of Life Sciences
About
I am a social science scholar with an interest in science and law. I analyze and compare forensic DNA practices in the Netherlands, England & Wales and Singapore. In addition, I study the international governance and transnational exchange of forensic bioinformation (i.e. DNA profiles, fingerprints).
I empirically analyze science and law in (inter)action. A typical question that structures my research is how forensic DNA profiling technologies interfere with processes of judicial truth construction, how forensic genetic practices become ‘enacted’, how bodies and truths become constructed material-semiotically, and what normative and political registers science and law ‘do’ in practice.
I currently work as a research fellow at the Northumbria University Centre for Forensic Science (NUCFS). Before taking this position, I was employed by the University of Amsterdam (UvA), dept. Political Science and the Institute for interdisciplinary studies (2003-2010); and the University of Twente (UT), chair Philosophy of science and technology (2002-2003). I was also a member of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR, now AISSR; 2004-2010).
I taught and have been teaching courses at NU (Management of forensic science), UvA (Policy, ethics and media, Our genetic identity, Democratic society and Rule of law) and UT (Philosophy of science). I've supervised MSc students writing their theses, topics included miscarriages of justice, mass identification (WTC, 9/11), filicide, and the CSI effect.
Contact Information
| Address: | Northumbria University Centre for Forensic Science (NUCFS)
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