24 April | 10:00 | Seminar Room, CEIS20
António Amorim, Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto, specialising in Biology, with a strong focus on Forensic Genetics, is the next guest speaker at the Axes of Interdisciplinary Knowledge – Keynote Series of the Doctorate in Contemporary Studies(DEC). The lecture, Genética Forense – muito mais do que uma aplicação, uma disciplinadora de investigação (Forensic Genetics – much more than an application, a research discipline), will be given in Portuguese and will also be streamed via Zoom and on the CEIS20 Youtube channel.
Forensic Genetics – much more than an application, a research discipline
Abstract
The personal adventure of scientific navigation is briefly described, in which an application becomes its own field of investigation, interacting with the process of questioning and discovery. Examples (“hidden” mutations and kinship classes) of this interaction are presented, in which the creation of purely scientific objects is stimulated by practical problems in forensic genetics.
Biography
António Amorim is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto, where he completed his degree in 1974 and obtained his PhD in 1983 in Biology. He has led the Population Genetics and Evolution Group at IPATIMUP/I3S for several years and is one of the most respected names and internationally cited authors in the fields of population genetics and forensic genetics, having received several national and international awards. He coordinated the GABBA doctoral programme (2004, 2015-2022), the PhD in Biology (2008-2012), and the Master’s in Forensic Genetics at the University of Porto. He was a member of the editorial board of the journals Forensic Science International (2004-2007), Investigative Genetics (2015-2016), Open Forensic Sciences Journal (2009-2010), and Frontiers in Genetics (2011-2020). He was the President of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics (2004), the Spanish and Portuguese Working Group of the International Society of Forensic Genetics (GHEP-ISFG), and was a member of the Board of IPATIMUP (1998-2010).