About | Dr Peter Forster
Dr Peter Forster, biotechnological director of Fluxus Technology Ltd, is the principal contact for legal medical and phylogeographic projects.
E-Mail: pf [at] fluxus-technology [dot] com
Born 1967, he studied chemistry at the universities of Kiel and Hamburg,
specialised in genetics at the Heinrich-Pette-Institute of Virology and
Immunology in Hamburg and received his PhD in Biology in 1997. After
postdoctoral research at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Muenster until
1999, he was appointed Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for
Archaeological Research in Cambridge until 2006. In the same period, he
became a Founding Member of the interdisciplinary Junge Akademie in Berlin.
From 2006-2009 he was a university senior lecturer in forensics and life
sciences. Peter Forster is currently Director of Research at the Institute
for Forensic Genetics in Muenster (Germany), Vice-President of CSAR
(Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK), Fellow of the McDonald Institute for
Archaeological Research in Cambridge, and an editor of the
International Journal of Legal Medicine (Springer, Heidelberg).
Peter Forster has co-developed (with
H.-J. Bandelt,
A. Röhl, T. Polzin, and others) phylogenetic network analysis of mitochondrial DNA, Y-chromosomal DNA, and linguistic data.
He also specialises in DNA ancestry tests
(www.rootsforreal.com). He acts as an external examiner for other
universities, and as a reviewer for academic journals and research funding
bodies in the United Kingdom and internationally.
