Postmortem diagnoses of various homicides, poisonings, and other deaths often rely on subjective assessments and non-specific findings, often established indirectly. Postmortem metabolomics has the potential to provide additional information related to the agonal phase, cause of death, and time of death. To maximise this potential, this research environment will bring together forensic pathologists, forensic toxicologists, analytical chemists, system biologists, and machine-learning and artificial intelligence experts. Successful efforts from this research environment will be implemented into routine case work and will aid police work in providing investigative leads and new tools to expand objective forensic evidence.
This research environment will include researchers from the National Board of Forensic Medicine (sv: Rättsmedicinalverket, RMV) and numerous departments at Linköping University including, the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV), the Department of Medical Engineering (IMT), the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA), and the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM).
