Wright, Kirsty - Griffith University - School of Natural Sciences

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Kirsty Wright is a Forensic Biologist who has vast experience as a Major Crime Scientist and expert witness for the court, and has led DNA teams in a number of successful local and international forensic operations. She was involved in the 2002 Bali Bombings forensic operation, and in 2005 was the DNA Team Leader for the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification operation in Phuket as part of the Australian Federal Police Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Team. In 2004 Kirsty was awarded the prestigious Churchill Fellowship to investigate methods of missing persons and DVI at the FBI Virginia, New York Office of the Chief Medical Examiner during the World Trade Centre Attacks DVI operation, and forensic biology laboratories across England. Kirsty led the successful expansion of the National Criminal Investigation DNA Database (NCIDD) as Program Manager for CrimTrac, was Senior Scientist for the Queensland ‘Skeletal Remains’ Project that assisted in identifying long-term unidentified remains, and implemented DNA forensic capabilities in the Northern Territory Police Forensic Biology laboratory for the analysis of human remains. She has provided forensic workshops for police, scientific and judicial groups locally and abroad and has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences. Kirsty is also an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force. She is part of the Forensic Response Team that assists with the identification of Australian soldiers, and victims of humanitarian disasters. She is also the DNA Manager for the Unrecovered War Casualties-Army who is responsible for recovery and identification of unaccounted Australian soldiers from historical conflicts. Her role focuses on research and development of advanced forensic biology techniques, and DNA capability development for human identification for the whole of the Australian Defence Force for current and historical conflicts.

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K. Wright, A. Mundorff, J. Chaseling, A. Forrest, C. Maguire, D.I. Crane. A new disaster victim identification management strategy targeting “below identification-threshold” cases: Experiences from the Boxing Day Tsunami. Forensic Science International 250 (2015) 91-97. K. Wright, A. Mundorff, J. Chaseling, C. Maguire, D.I. Crane. An evaluation of the Thai Tsunami victim identification DNA operation. Forensic Science Policy & Management: An International Journal, (2015) 6:3-4, 69-78.