CV Michael Thali
Full Professor and Managing Director Institute of Forensic Medicine, University Bern (since 2006)

Executive MBA at the University St. Gallen (2003 - 2005)

Habilitation in Forensic Medicine (2003): "VIRTOPSY: 3D Body Surface and Body Surface and Body Internal Scanning Body using Photogrammetry-based 3D Optical Scanners, CT, MRI, Micro-CT, Micro-MRI and Synthetic Body Model Development in Forensic Medicine" at the University of Bern, Switzerland, 2003.

Board certification as a Forensic Pathologist (2000).

Medical dissertation at the University of Bern:
Bi-lateral Hip Total Prosthesis Implantatic
in one Operative Procedure
(Prof. Dr. med. Reinhold Ganz, Orthopedic Clinic, University of Berne, 1999).

Medical Education

  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Bern, Switzerland
    Prof. Richard Dirnhofer, Director
    July 2002 - 2005
  • Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
    Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner,
    Armed Forces Institute of Pathology - OAFME, Rockville / Washington DC, USA
    AbuBakr A. Marzouk, MD, COL, USAF, MC, FS
    July 2001 - June 2002
  • Ballistics and Detonics Laboratory
    Defense Procurement Agency, Thun
    Dr. sc. forens. Beat P. Kneubuehl, Scientific Director
    January 2001 - June 2001
  • Department of Neuroradiology
    University of Bern
    Prof. G. Schroth
    July 2000 - December 2000.
  • Institute of Diagnostic Radiology
    University of Bern
    Prof. P. Vock, Director
    January 1999 - June 2000.
  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Bern
    Prof. R. Dirnhofer, Director
    December 1995 - December 1998.

Guest Physician:

  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Salzburg / Linz, Austria
    October 1998.
  • Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Vienna, Austria
    October 1996.

Scientific Areas of Interest

  • Forensic Radiology.
  • Documentation of pattern injuries to skin and bone with forensic 3D-CAD Photogrammetry and optical 3D Surface Scanning.
  • Development of a "Skin-Skull-Brain Model'' and other body models for forensic science.
  • Wound Ballistics.

Affiliations

  • Swiss Forensic Society
  • Swiss Society of Criminologists
  • German Society of Forensic Medicine
  • European Academy of Forensic Science
  • ENFSI European Network of Forensic Science Institutes
  • European Congress of Radiology (ECR)
  • American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS - Fellow)
  • International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
  • UK Forensic Society
  • SWISS MAMBA (Swiss Organisation of Medical Doctors with Executive MBA)