Name :
dr. Zeno J. Geradts
R&D coordinator Digital Evidence / Forensic Scientist
Image Analysis and Biometrics
at the Netherlands Forensic Institute
Education:
2002 Ph.D. from the university
of Utrecht Dissertation “ Content-Based Information Retrieval from Forensic
Image Databases”,
http://forensic.to/Dissertation.pdf
1988 BS of the TH Rijswijk
Working Experience
1999-now Netherlands
Forensic Institute, section Digital Evidence:
Forensic scientist in the areas
(video) image processing, photogrammetry and biometrics. R&D-coordinator
of projects on Digital Evidence.
1997-1999
Netherlands Forensic Institute,
section Digital Evidence
: forensic
scientist in the field of (video) image processing.
1995-1997 Netherlands
Forensic Institute, section Firearms :
forensic scientist
and involved in R&D-projects on automatic comparison of cartridge cases and
bullets.
1992 – 1995 Netherlands
Forensic Institute, section Toolmarks
: forensic scientist in the field of shoeprints and
toolmarks. In 1994 appointed by the Dutch court to expert witness under
permanent oath.
R&D-projects in image databases of shoe prints and toolmarks.
1988- 1992
OCE Nederland BV Venlo
R&D-projects image processing in digital
photocopiers. Furthermore involved in literature research for patent
infringement, new developments and new inventions.
Other relevant activities
2005-2006 Chairman of AAFS Engineering Sciences
Section
2004- Chairman of
ENFSI-Forensic IT working group
2004- Coordinator of WP6
Forensic Implications within the FIDIS
(Future of Identification Systems) project of the EU.
2004- 2005 Secretary of Engineering
Section of the American Academy of Forensic Science
www.aafs.org
2003- member of editorial board of Elsevier Journal on Digital
Investigation.
2002- 2004
Vice-chairman of ENFSI Forensic IT Working group (www.enfsi.org
)
2000-now
Chairman of
Investigative Image Processing Technical group of SPIE
(www.spie.org)
1995
Young investigator award : National Research
Institute of Police Science in Tokyo for a project on video image
restoration in which we tested several methods, like MTV and Maximum Entropy.
1992-now :
webmaster
of
www.forensic.to with information on forensic science.
Please visit Publications for more
information on the articles that have been published.
\
Last
revision: 06 May 2006
