Cornelius Courts

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Cornelius EA Courts (born September 10, 1977 in Kleve ) is a German biologist , forensic scientist and blogger . Since November 2015 he has been head of the forensic genetics department at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein .

Life

Courts is the son of a German journalist and a publicist. He grew up in the greater Cologne area and attended the Brauweiler Abbey High School , where he obtained the general university entrance qualification in 1997 . He then studied biology at the University of Cologne with a diploma. In 2008 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the molecular biological analysis of the pathogenesis of primary lymphomas of the central nervous system .

In 2008, Courts took up the position of head of forensic genetics at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Bonn Clinic . In November 2015 he moved to the UKSH in Kiel, where he heads the forensic genetics department at the Institute of Forensic Medicine and researches the use of forensic RNA analysis in various forensic questions and, since 2018, forensic DNA transfer. He is a co-founder of the research approach of "molecular ballistics ", which deals with the molecular biological investigation of traces that are created when shooting with firearms at biological targets. In 2015 he qualified as a professor at the medical faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in the field of "Forensic Molecular Biology".

Courts has been running the science blog blooD'N'Acid since 2011 and appears at Scienceslams , where he brings his research topics closer to an interested lay audience. In 2016 Courts won the title “Prof of the Night” at the Night of the Profs event at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

Blog

Courts' blog blooD'N'Acid has existed since March 2011 on the scientific blog platform ScienceBlogs . There he takes up different topics, for example he reports on his own research work in a way that is understandable even for laypeople, but also summarizes specialist articles by other authors. There are also basic articles on various topics, including cancer development , forensic methods and molecular genetics . Courts also writes opinion articles and represents, among other things, his position as an atheist , humanist and skeptic .

Others

Cornelius Courts was in the media more and more from 2013, as he contributed to the investigation of a multiple murder in Neuss with the help of the molecular ballistics method developed in 2010 with the forensic doctor C. Schyma for securing and analyzing evidence on the inside of firearms .

In 2014, mortal remains that had been recovered from Lake Maria Laacher See in 2008 as part of an ordnance clearance operation were identified using a method developed by Courts and assigned to the Canadian soldier Flight Sgt. JJ Carey, who was sent to a British Halifax in August 1942 . Bomber fell into the lake and died there.

In 2020, 10 years after he was founded, his research field of molecular ballistics was presented in the ZDF Info Documentation Forensic Scientists in Action: Treacherous Blood - On the Trail of Crime .

Work (selection)

Technical article

  • Genetics of the sudden infant death syndrome . In: Forensic Science International , 2010, doi: 10.1016 / j.forsciint.2010.07.008 .
  • Micro-RNA - a potential for forensic science? In: Forensic Science International , 2010, doi: 10.1016 / j.forsciint.2010.07.002
  • Full STR profile of a 67-year-old bone found in a fresh water lake . In: Journal of Forensic Sciences , 2011, doi: 10.1111 / j.1556-4029.2010.01589.x , PMID 21198612
  • Specific micro-RNA signatures for the detection of saliva and blood in forensic body-fluid identification . In: Journal of Forensic Sciences , 2011, doi: 10.1111 / j.1556-4029.2011.01894.x
  • Persistence of biological traces in gun barrels after fatal contact shots . In: Forensic Science International Genetics , 2013, doi: 10.1016 / j.fsigen.2012.05.008 .
  • Persistence of Biological Traces at Inside Parts of a Firearm from a Case of Multiple Familial Homicide . In: Journal of Forensic Sciences , 2014, doi: 10.1111 / 1556-4029.12434
  • Identification of gunshots to the head by detection of RNA in backspatter primarily expressed in brain tissue . In: Forensic Science International , 2014, doi: 10.1016 / j.forsciint.2014.01.016
  • An evidence based strategy for normalization of quantitative PCR data from miRNA expression analysis in forensically relevant body fluids . In: Forensic Science International: Genetics , 2014, doi: 10.1016 / j.fsigen.2014.03.011
  • The 'triple contrast' method in experimental wound ballistics and backspatter analysis . In: International journal of legal medicine , 129 (5), 1027-1033., Doi: 10.1007 / s00414-015-1151-0
  • On DNA transfer: the lack and difficulty of systematic research and how to do it better . In: Forensic Science International: Genetics . 2019 (40), 24–36, doi: 10.1016 / j.fsigen.2019.01.012

Popular science publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  2. ↑ scienceblogs.de
  3. ↑ youtube.com
  4. ↑ youtube.com
  5. ↑ University of Kiel | Privatdozent Dr. Cornelius Courts is? Prof of the Night 2016 ?. In: www.uni-kiel.de. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ express.de
  7. ^ Full STR profile of a 67-year-old bone found in a fresh water lake . In: Journal of Forensic Sciences , 2011, doi: 10.1111 / j.1556-4029.2010.01589.x , PMID 21198612
  8. ↑ express.de
  9. ↑ On the Trail of Crime - Forensic Scientists on Action: Treacherous Blood. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Courts, Cornelius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Courts, Cornelius EA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, forensic scientist, blogger
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve