Oliver Peschel

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Oliver Peschel (* 1964 in Munich ) is a German forensic doctor . He researches and teaches as a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

education and profession

Peschel passed his Abitur at the Grafing grammar school in Grafing near Munich and completed a medical degree at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , after studying chemistry for two semesters . In 1991, the year he graduated, he received his doctorate with a forensic medicine thesis on rigor mortis . In 1993 Peschel became an assistant doctor at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Munich and has remained associated with the institute ever since. After his recognition as a doctor of forensic medicine, he became a senior physician, and after completing his habilitation with a thesis on the reconstruction of gunshot wounds, he was appointed adjunct professor in 2015.

Research interests and international activities

Peschel researched different topics in order to make them useful for conclusions about the crime, especially:

  • Assessment of wounds from firearm use
  • Distribution pattern of traces of blood at the crime scene

A large part of his work is also devoted to the identification of unknown dead; Peschel contributed research to this topic and worked practically. During foreign missions he was involved in identifications in Bosnia and Kosovo as a participant in the exhumation mission of the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ; he helped identify the victims of the fire disaster in Kaprun . He also provided assistance in identifying victims of the tsunami in Thailand . He has been the conservation officer for the glacier mummy Ötzi since 2016, succeeding Eduard Egarter Vigl .

Awards

In 2016 Oliver Peschel received the Konrad Handel Foundation Prize from the German Society for Forensic Medicine .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This man autopsied 10,000 people . Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ dgrm.de: Current award winners
personal data
SURNAME Peschel, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich