Technology Opportunities

Objective/function

• The Forensic Chemistry Laboratory focuses on developing new and improved tools using chemical methods to solve crimes and furnish courts of law with scientific evidence

Research provided

• Development of latent fingerprint visualization techniques through improved reagents and instrumentation: In particular, providing colored or luminescent impressions via more sensitive "mapping" of the amino acids and lipids that are present in small amounts in fingerprint deposits
• Advanced techniques for detection and identification of explosives such as the preparation of novel color reagents for the chemical detection of explosives.
• Highly refined field tests for crime-scene examination, including
• Shooter detection (color and fluorescence techniques)
• Enhancement of faint contact impressions such as shoe prints, tire prints, and indented writing

Advantages

• The Forensic Chemistry Laboratory has highly skilled, knowledgeable researchers utilizing and developing state-of-the-art equipment and technologies

Client record

• Latent Fingerprint Laboratory of the Division of Identification and Forensic Science (DIFS) of the Israel Police.
• Explosives Identification Laboratory of the DIFS
• Toolmarks and Materials Laboratory and the Questioned Documents Laboratory of the DIFS
• The US Secret Service Forensic Science Lab (Washington DC)

Available equipment

• Equipment for synthetic chemistry
• Equipment for analytical chemistry
• Forensic equipment

Staff

• Joseph Almog, PhD
• Six MSc research students and one post doctoral fellow

Contact

• Joseph Almog, PhD almog@vms.huji.ac.il
• Link to homepage http://chemistry.huji.ac.il/casali/almog.htm