Dr Michael Coble

Associate Professor and Executive Director, Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas

Michael is an Associate Professor and the Executive Director of the Center for Human Identification at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, Texas. He received his Master’s degree in Forensic Science and his PhD in Genetics from The George Washington University. He has authored or co-authored over 95 peer-reviewed publications and 7 book chapters in the area of forensic DNA analysis and interpretation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a member of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. He has served as an invited guest of SWGDAM for the past 10 years. He is a co-editor of the Forensic Biology subject area of WIREs Forensic Science journal and is a member of the editorial boards of Forensic Science International: Genetics and The Journal of Forensic Sciences. He is the co-author, with Dr Jo Bright, of “Forensic DNA Profiling: A Practical Guide to Assigning Likelihood Ratios” by CRC Press.