Dr. Nicole Novroski

Dr. Nicole Novroski is the Associate Director of the University of North Texas (UNT) Center for Human Identification and holds a tenured associate professorship within the College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences at UNT Health Sciences Center, as well as adjunct professorships at both the University of Toronto and Laurentian University.

Her research specializes in using massively parallel sequencing coupled with novel approaches and methodologies to improve forensic human identity testing for public laboratories. Her current focus is the exploration of previously uncharacterized genetic markers for improved DNA mixture deconvolution and in the optimization of genetic workflows for forensic genetic genealogy. Dr. Novroski is the editor-in-chief of Forensic Genomics and serves as a scientific key opinion leader for many organizations and committees within the criminal justice system.