CV Stephan Bolliger

Head, Department of Forensic Medicine

Senior physician at the Centre of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland
Since February 2006

Board certification as a forensic pathologist in 2006.

Dissertation at the University of Basel:
„An Examination of the Spleens of TNF/LT a -/-, TNFR-1 -/-, LT a -/- & TNF -/- Mice and the Effect of Bone-marrow Transplantation on TNF/LT a; -/- & TNFR-1 -/- Mice“.
(Prof. Bernhard Ryffel, MD, Institute of Pathology, University of Basel, 2000).

Medical Education:

  • Centre of Forensic Imaging and Virtopsy, Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Bern, Switzerland
    Prof. M.J. Thali, MD, Director
    Since February 2006
  • Medical Department, Institute of Forensic Medicine
    University of Bern, Switzerland
    Prof. R. Dirnhofer, MD, Director
    March 2002 – January 2006
  • Geriatric Clinic
    Adullam-Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
    H.J. Ledermann, MD, Director
    March 2001 – February 2002
  • Institute of Pathology
    University of Basel, Switzerland
    Prof. M.J. Mihatsch, MD, Director
    February 2001 - January 2002

Scientific Areas of Interest

  • Forensic anthropology and archaeology.
  • Imaging of the late post-mortem period.
  • Imaging of blunt trauma.
  • Synthetic body models in forensic science.

Affiliations

  • Secretary of the Swiss Society of Legal Medicine
  • Member of the Swiss Society for Anthropology