Kelly Elkins is a forensic scientist and professor of chemistry at Towson University. Before joining Towson University’s Forensic Science faculty, Elkins served as a Fulbright Scholar at the European Media Laboratory and the University of Heidelberg, completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at MIT’s Department of Biology as a Cancer Research Institute Fellow, and was a forensic faculty member and Director of the Forensic Science Program at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She is the author and editor of eight forensic science books. Her research focuses on applying next-generation sequencing and massively parallel sequencing to forensic samples, forensic DNA phenotyping, genetic genealogy, real-time PCR assay development, and novel bioinformatics tools.
In a recent interview, we sat down with Kelly Elkins, a Professor of Chemistry at Towson University and Jaden Force, a Graduate Research Assistant at Towson University, to talk about the state of forensics and how they apply spectroscopic techniques in their research.
