Emerging Forensic Scientist in Odontology Awarded at AAFS

PhD Candidate Mithun Rajshekar was presented with the Forensic Sciences Foundation (FSF) Henry C. Lee Scholarship at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) 68^th Annual Scientific Meeting 'Transformation: Embracing Change', in Las Vegas, 22- 27 February 2016. The scholarship was awarded for best paper, 'Assessing the Reliability of Measurements of Human Dental Casts Using an Intraoral 3D Scanner', which Mithun presented at the meeting.

After completing his Masters in Forensic Sciences (Odontology) at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Mithun decided to further pursue his passion for forensics at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) in 2013. His Higher Degree by Research (HDR) program (Doctor of Philosophy), concentrates on 'Documentation of Animal Bite Marks Through the Development of Animal Dentitions', and is being supervised by Associate Professor Roberta Julian (TILES), Associate Professor Leigh Blizzard (Menzies Institute for Medical Research), Dr Anne-Marie Williams (School of Medicine) and Professor Marc Tennant (Centre for Rural and Remote Oral Health, University of Western Australia).