Dr JAN BIKKER - FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN

Forensic Advisor , Forensic Anthropologist

 

Dr Bikker previously worked as Regional Forensic Advisor for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) working on humanitarian management of the dead policy to facilitate the  forensic identification of deceased migrants in Europe with focus on Spain, Malta, Italy and in particular Greece.

Dr Bikker conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Dundee on the FASTID-project which aimed to establish the first international police database at INTERPOL's General Secretariat in Lyon to manage cross-border enquiries concerning missing persons and unidentified bodies in the event of disasters as well as day-to-day policing. Contributed to the development of uniform international DVI standards and the new INTERPOL DVI forms and training programmes for police forces and forensic experts to identify missing persons and unidentified bodies according to the internationally recognized standards.

Experienced forensic anthropologist working with UK police forces on forensic anthropological casework and international DVI operations. Regularly invited for conference presentations on DVI and forensic identification, both nationally and internationally. Research include novel ante-mortem data collection interview protocols, human rights issues in DVI (including personal data protection and post-mortem privacy), improving communication with relatives of missing persons in disasters, the role of culture in DVI and DVI in areas of conflict and expert on body modifications for the purposes of human identification. Lectured and supervised projects on forensic identification within the renowned Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee. Dr Bikker received his PhD in Forensic Anthropology from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sheffield.

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He has lectured and supervised at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the UK. Dr Bikker has written numerous articles and book chapters and has given oral presentations internationally.

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He is a Council Member of the British Association for Human Identification (BAHID) and the British Association of Forensic Anthropologists (BAFA)

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