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PhD Position Summary: The School of Criminal Justice is seeking an aspiring young scientist to start a PhD research project on probabilistic evaluation of comparative handwriting examinations using graphical models (i.e., Bayesian networks). A Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Grant funds the starting phase of this PhD project during a period of 18 months.
Project Summary: The primary objective of this SNSF funded research is to rely on Bayesian networks within a general methodology for structured expert knowledge elicitation and analysis in order to build diagrammatic interpretation structures that have the potential to become part of the scope of resources that forensic experts need to substantiate probabilistic evaluations and conclusions in cases involving the results of comparative handwriting examinations. The appointed PhD candidate in this project will work closely with practising forensic handwriting examiners and conduct both fundamental research on probabilistic interpretation in the context of forensic handwriting examination and in-depth case studies. The project also involves exchanges on methods and approaches with a researcher from the Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science of the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing (CUPL).
Application until: December 19th, 2014