Join us for a Molecular Horizons and Environmental Futures Seminar by Dr Matt Krosch (Principal Research Officer, Forensic Services Group, Queensland Police Service)
Forensic Services Seminar
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UOW Wollongong - 32-G01
Dr Krosch is currently the Principal Research Officer for the Quality Management Section, Forensic Services Group, within the Queensland Police Service. This role requires him to be the quintessential jack-of-all-trades, coordinating research that spans a range of forensic disciplines and broadly aims to keep QPS at the leading edge of forensic service capability. Dr Krosch is also an entomologist and contributes his expertise in this field to QPS’s forensic casework as well as being the current Chair of the Entomology Technical Advisory Group under the National Institute for Forensic Science.
Dr Krosch’s career trajectory into forensic science has been somewhat unconventional. Having completed his undergraduate degree in Applied Science, majoring in biotechnology, he switched to ecological genetics for his Honours and PhD research. This briefly took him into government contract work in freshwater ecosystem health monitoring, before returning to academia as a postdoctoral fellow to work on molecular aspects of pest fruit fly evolution and surveillance. Dr Krosch remains interested in the evolution, diversity and ecology of austral fauna and flora, and holds freshwater systems particularly dear to his heart.