Forensic celebration: On the trail of the crime with exciting lectures

A special event in the "Open BTU" public lecture series will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Forensic Sciences and Engineering program at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) on Friday, July 1, 2022.

Aspart of the Open BTU Special "Forensic Sciences and Engineering - On the Trail of the Crime", exciting lectures by experts from the BTU and guest speakers will provide, among other things, amazing insights into spectacular criminal cases and how to solve them. All interested parties are invited to attend from 16:30 -19:15 in Audimax 1 and 2 at the BTU's central campus in Cottbus, Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 3. Admission is free.

The Forensic Sciences and Engineering continuing education program, unique in Germany, was established at BTU a decade ago. To mark this occasion and in continuation of the successful lecture series "On the Trail of the Crime", topics in forensic science will now once again be taught, giving the interested public access to the methods, topics and challenges of modern forensics in the criminalistics sector. At the end of the evening, after ten years of forensics at the BTU, a number of teachers from the very beginning will be ceremoniously retired.

The Center for Academic Continuing Education and the Chair of Public Law, in particular Environmental and Planning Law , invite you to this festive Open BTU Special. The President of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg Prof. Dr. Gesine Grande will welcome the guests.

The speakers are: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Spyra (BTU, Criminalistics), Prof. Dr. Dirk Labudde (Forensic expert and advisor to police special commissions), Dr. Wolfgang Mattig (Former head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Potsdam), Apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Fischer (Head of the Central Analytical Laboratory of the BTU), PD Dr. habil. Stefan Rödiger (Institute of Biotechnology of the BTU, Department of Multiparameter Diagnostics) and other lecturers.

Program
4:45 p.m.:
Musical start with Suzi Cue - Business and Communication, Cottbus
5:00 p.m.: Welcome: Prof. Dr. Gesine Grande - President of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
5:10 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Spyra - "Police and University - a contradiction in terms?"
5:25 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Dirk Labudde - "Theft of the gold coin worth 3.75 million euros from the Bode Museum in Berlin and clarification of the crime scene in the Green Vault, Dresden. How could the perpetrators be convicted?"
5:40 p.m. Dr. Wolfgang Mattig - "Legal medicine is a hidden scientific work and art that gets to the bottom of the crime at the very end"
5:55 p.m. Apl. Prof. Dr. Thomas Fischer u. PD Dr. Stefan Rödiger - "CSI and real life, how does that fit together?"
6:10 p.m. Panel - together with other forensic experts - Moderation: Director of Studies Prof. Dr. Eike Albrecht and Dirk Marx, Chair of Public Law, in particular Environmental and Planning Law
7:00 p.m. Summary and Acknowledgements

Date: Friday, July 1, 2022, from 16:30 -19:15 Location: Audimax 1 and 2 at the central campus of the BTU, Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 3, 03046 Cottbus.

About the study program "Forensic Sciences and Engineering " The study program "Forensic Sciences and Engineering" with the degree Master of Science (M.Sc.) is unique as a part-time continuing education program at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Since 2012, the course has existed as a continuing education course unique in this field in Germany for ten years now.

The courses in the forensics degree program focus on crime scene work, investigative procedures and trace analysis as well as their analysis in the context of successful usability in court. The training is scientifically transdisciplinary at the BTU. Forensic knowledge, which can also be used by experts in the private sector, also characterizes the teaching program. Overall, forensic science is facing new challenges: The pace of methodological, technical and scientific developments is characterized by digitalization, new international and European trends, which are pushing the previously mostly nationally operating law enforcement agencies and expert witnesses to their limits. "Forensic Sciences and Engineering" at BTU in Cottbus is taking on these challenges while deepening its own profile with a redesign of the study program for the winter semester 2023.

Contact
Dirk Marx (MBL)
Chair of Public Law in particular Environmental and Planning Law
T +49 (0) 355 69-3139
E forensic-sciences-ms(at)b-tu.de

Thomas Hasenauer
Zentrum für wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung (ZWW)
T +49 (0) 355 69-3680
thomas.hasenauer(at)b-tu.de

Press contact

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Stabsstelle Kommunikation und Marketing
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ralf-peter.witzmann(at)b-tu.de
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