The session is dedicated to Marjan Sjerps in honour of her special professorship in forensic statistics for 15 years at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute and her enormous contribution to forensic research and academic education in Amsterdam and The Hague. To celebrate the academic career of Marjan we have invited two excellent international speakers (see program below) who will be complemented by two young forensic experts and colleagues from the NFI. Of course, Marjan will be our guest of honour at the event, and we welcome everyone to join the social drink directly after the lectures.

As always, attending this session is free of charge, but please register to help us organize it properly using the button below.

Details on the program and the speakers can be found below, the poster announcement will hopefully become available next week.

We look forward to welcoming you at Science Park on October 1^st!

Program:

15:00-15:30 Evidence Evaluation and Statistics at the NFI – Camille van Dijk (NFI)

15:30-16:00 The roles of the forensic expert and the factfinder: Are we applying Bayesian inference properly in forensic evaluative reporting? – Anders Nordgaard (NFC)

16:00-16:30 Evaluating physical and digital forensic findings given activity level propositions using Bayesian networks – Marouschka Vink (NFI)

16:30-17:00 Probabilistic reasoning and the Lucy Letby case – Amy Wilson (University of Edinburgh)

17:00-18:00 Social Drink

Speaker information:

Camille van Dijk is a forensic statistician at the Netherlands Forensic Institute. She works on creating models for evidence evaluation across various forensic disciplines and explores the application of statistical methods in forensic science, such as calculating measurement uncertainty. Additionally, she teaches both forensic scientists and legal professionals about the Bayesian framework for evidence evaluation.

Anders Nordgaard is a forensic specialist at the National Forensic Centre of the Swedish Police. He is Reader in statistics at Linköping University and honorary doctor in law at Lund University. He develops methods for evidence evaluation in forensic casework, does research on evidence theory and trains forensic scientists, prosecutors, judges and defence attorneys on a national and international level. He is also Editor-in-chief of Law, Probability and Risk (Oxford University Press).

Marouschka Vink works as a forensic scientist at the Netherlands Forensic Institute and holds a master's degree in Forensic Science. She is completing her PhD in forensic science, focusing on activity level evaluations using Bayesian networks under the supervision of Marjan Sjerps.

Amy Wilson is a lecturer in statistics at the University of Edinburgh and the Chair of the Royal Statistical Society Section on Statistics and the Law. She is interested in developing better methods for making decisions under uncertainty in legal and forensic applications. She previously held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Durham and Edinburgh in statistical modelling for energy systems. Her PhD at the University of Edinburgh was in statistical modelling for the evaluation of forensic evidence.