Professor Charles Berger
Charles Berger was appointed to the chair of Criminalistics at Leiden University in 2011. His field of interest is the logically correct interpretation and use of forensic evidence in police investigations and court proceedings.
His research focuses particularly on objective methods for the analysis of evidence and the assignment of (numerical) evidential values. Professor Berger holds a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Twente, and has extensive international experience, having worked in the USA (Naval Research Labs and the University of California) and France (the University of Bordeaux and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris).