Editorial Board
Athina Vidaki
Erasmus MC University, Medical Center, Rotterdam · Netherlands
Editorial leadership for Journal of Advanced Forensic Sciences ISSN 2692-5915
Research interests
- Dr Vidaki's Main Research Interest Lays Within The Field Of Forensic Epigenetics
- Its Novel Applications
- Such The Prediction Of Chronological Age Of Unknown Individuals
- The Identification Of Forensically Relevant Body Fluids
- Tissues
- The Discrimination Between Monozygotic Twins. Other Research Interests Include Forensic Dna Analysis
- Massively Parallel Sequencing
- Mitochondrial Dna Analysis
- Forensic Mrna Profiling As Well As The Analysis Of Snp Polymorphisms
Biography
- Dr Vidaki is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Genetic Identification at the Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam.
- She holds an MSc in Forensic Science from King's College London, where she also successfully completed her PhD in Forensic Epigenetics in 2015. Her research mainly focuses on novel uses of epigenetics in forensic science.
- Her study on age-of-donor prediction was awarded the prize of the best presentation at the last Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG).
- Ongoing work in the same topic includes the coordination of a collaborative exercise for behalf of the European DNA Profiling (EDNAP) group.
Selected publications
- From forensic epigenetics to forensic epigenomics: broadening DNA investigative intelligence 2017 cited 84×
- Equivalent DNA methylation variation between monozygotic co-twins and unrelated individuals reveals universal epigenetic inter-individual dissimilarity 2021 cited 34×
- Targeted DNA methylation analysis and prediction of smoking habits in blood based on massively parallel sequencing 2023 cited 22×
- Revisiting genetic artifacts on DNA methylation microarrays exposes novel biological implications 2021 cited 10×
- Breaking the Restriction Barriers and Applying CRISPRi as a Gene Silencing Tool in Pseudoclostridium thermosuccinogenes 2022 cited 7×
- Investigating Single-Molecule Molecular Inversion Probes for Medium-Scale Targeted DNA Methylation Analysis Recent 2025 cited 3×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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