Crime Scene Investigation of the Future | Wim Develter & Bram Bekaert | TEDxLeuven

If you look into the number of crime related television series, you know it is a topic that interests many.

In this talk, join Wim Develter and Bram Bogaert in this real life crime scene investigation and discover the new technologies that can be used to investigate a homicide.

Wim Develter is a forensic and clinical pathologist linked to Gasthuisberg, the University Hospital of Leuven. His area of expertise focuses on corporate damage.


Bram Bekaert started his career in 1996 as a police officer in Brussels while studying part-time for a BSc in Biotechnology.

He moved to the UK to study forensic science and obtained a second bachelor degree and an MSc in Forensic DNA Profiling at the University of Central Lancashire.

In 2009 he obtained his PhD in nutri-epigenomics at the University of Surrey and currently is a forensic geneticist at the Laboratory for Forensic Genetics and Molecular Archaeology at the University Hospitals Leuven.


This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx