Mônica C. Serra
Sao Paulo State University
Biography
Mônica is a Brazilian professor and researcher, with background in Dentistry, Letters and Law, specialist in Forensic Dentistry. She holds a Master and a PhD degree in Dentistry, and post-docs in Bioethics, in International Health Law and in Forensic Anthropology. Leader of the “Nucleus of Forensic Sciences, Bioethics, Biolaw and Ethics in Science and Technology” and “Brazilian Group of Forensic Imaging and Radiology”. She is Associate Researcher at the Renato Archer Information Technology Center, Brazil. Professor in São Paulo State University, of Bioethics, Deontology, Forensic Dentistry and Forensic Anthropology and New Technologies in Human Identification. Former Head of the Social Dentistry Department. Professor in postgraduation, MSc and PhD courses. Author of many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Her research interests involve the application of new technologies to the forensic field, in special to human identification. Mônica is also very interested in 2D and 3D Forensic Facial Reconstruction, in Virtual Forensic Anthropology, especially in the use of 3D surface scanners in Forensic Anthropology, and in developing a protocol to help and facilitate the work of experts that are in the daily routine of Institutes of Criminalistics and Legal Medicine.