Bertrand Ludes

Dr. Ludes is the current Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine in Paris: he was appointed to this position by the Chief of Police in September 2013. He was previously a professor of Legal Medicine, Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine in Strasbourg and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg. His main research areas are human DNA profiling (mitochondrial DNA, autosomal and Y chromosome STRs and SNP technologies) and Diatom research and analyses in drowning cases. Dr. Ludes is also the Vice President of the International Academy of Legal Medicine and the French Society of Legal Medicine. He was the co-founder of the genetic identification laboratory of the Institut de Médecine Légale de Strasbourg. Dr. Ludes holds both an MD and a PhD in molecular pharmacology.