11-09-2019 | 14:43
On Wednesday, 11 September 2019, we received the sad news that Leo Zaal, our Chief Executive Officer, passed away at the age of ...
26-08-2019 | 13:51
The SHUTTLE PCP project will launch its call for tender to support the development of a Scientific High-throughput and Unified ...
19-07-2019 | 13:19
A project proposal from the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) and the Rwanda Forensic Laboratory (RFL) will receive a grant ...
05-06-2018 | 10:25
In an attempt to find out the identity of anonymous Dutch war victims, the authorities will exhume the remains of 103 individuals ...
03-05-2018 | 14:14
Can a fingerprint provide stronger evidence in court? ‘Absolutely,’ says Marcel de Puit. ‘Important innovations are happening in ...
20-04-2018 | 00:00
With a court ruling that the 3.6 million encrypted messages from Ennetcom servers in Canada were lawfully obtained and searched ...
20-03-2018 | 00:00
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has asked Dr Ed van Zalen to take on the role of acting ...
12-03-2018 | 15:09
During the last conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) – from February 19 to 24, 2018 in Seattle - ...
29-01-2018 | 12:59
On Saturday 24 February a large-scale DNA investigation will be launched in an attempt to determine what happened to 11-year-old ...
11-12-2017 | 08:57
On Saturday 9 December North Holland Police arrested a 47 year-old man from Zaandam in connection with the rape and violent death ...
06-07-2017 | 15:21
Peter van den Elzen (b. 1952) has taken up his duties as acting General Manager of the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI). ...
08-05-2017 | 16:47
Together with European forensic institutes and universities, the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has developed software that ...
24-04-2017 | 10:29
For the third time in the more than 30 cases where the DNA database was searched using the familial searching technique, a ...
23-03-2017 | 10:44
Reinout Woittiez has decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer of the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI).
28-02-2017 | 16:37
In the DNA database for criminal cases, the oldest DNA match ever was found at the end of 2016. It concerns a match between a DNA ...
27-02-2017 | 14:13
The Dutch police and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) are working together to make grab marks on clothes visible. The ...
20-02-2017 | 13:04
The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has developed a method to determine whether the colour of fibres at a crime scene ...
06-02-2017 | 16:22
Do bullets deviate if they are shot through a human body, but do not hit any bones? This is a question that may be essential to ...
