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Mayra Eduardoff
Biography:
Dr. Mayra Eduardoff joined the Department of Forensic Science as Assistant Professor in 2023. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biology specializing in Microbiology as well as a Master of Science in Molecular Biology from the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck in Austria. She then was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship in Biomedicine at the Laboratory of Sensory Cell Biology and Organogenesis, Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain where is absolved one year before deciding to switch to a PhD position with Dr. Walther Parson at the Institute of Legal Medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria. After a short postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute, she was hired as Forensic Identification Coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tbilisi, Georgia, and following that, as the Science & Technology Program Officer at the International Commission on Missing Persons in Mexico, before moving to The Netherlands to become the Head of Research & Validation and then the Head of the DNA Laboratories for ICMP. Her research experiences in the field of forensic biology are quite vast and extend from forensic genetics for human identification, ancestry and phenotype prediction, to exploring alternative DNA typing technologies such as massively parallel sequencing and continuous improvements in DNA extraction methods from very degraded human remains. Her interest's extent beyond the lab to statistics for large scale identification events such as mass disasters and bioinformatics for the analysis DNA sequencing analysis.
