Walther Parson holds an associate professorship at the Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria and an adjunct associate professorship at Penn State Eberly College of Science, PA, USA. He set up the Austrian National DNA Database Laboratory and is an Austrian representative in the European Network of Forensic Sciences (ENFSI) DNA Working Group and the European DNA Profiling (EDNAP) Group. He received international scientific prizes and is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. WP has authored more than 500 scientific articles. He was repeatedly consigned to handle international requests on DNA fingerprinting such as the DNA identification of the Asian Tsunami-victims, the remains of the Russian Tsar family or historical cases such as the putative Mozart skull and the remains of Friedrich Schiller.
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Forensic and Genetic ResearchMolecular Biology Techniques and ApplicationsGenetic diversity and population structureForensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology StudiesEnvironmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
