5th International Caparica Conference in Translational Forensics 2026

18th – 22nd October 2026 | Caparica | Portugal

Keynote Speakers

Rosalynn Quiñones-Fernández, PhD

Marshall University, Chemistry Department, Huntington (USA)

Integrating Powder Composition, Particle Properties, and Fluorescence Imaging in Latent Print Development

Veronika Rybárová, PhD

Department of Forensic Medicine and Medicolegal Expertise, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, University Hospital Martin (Slovakia)

From Autopsy to Underwater Reconstruction: Interdisciplinary Investigation of a Diving Fatality

Henrike Neumann Zachariae, Analyst

The Danish Independent Evidence Oversight Board (Denmark)

 

Maiko Kusano, PhD

Department of Legal Medicine, Showa Medical University (Japan)

 

Roberto Mandrioli, PhD

University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

Unravelling the chemical noise: bioanalytical strategies in dual diagnosis patients 

Michele Protti, PhD

University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

Lethal in micrograms, detectable in microliters: The forensic challenge of nitazenes in microsampling matrices

Alberto Chighine, PhD

Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari (Italy)

Metabolomics investigation of post-mortem pericardial fluid from real life forensic cases

Hanoch Senderowitz, PhD
Department of Chemistry Bar-Ilan University Rama-Gan (Israel)

FORENSIC INFORMATICS: USING MACHINE LEARNING TO ANALYZE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM CRIME SCENES