Dr. Kewal Krishan, Panjab University, Chandigarh India

Dr. Kewal Krishan is a renowned forensic anthropologist and presently a Professor and former Chair at the Department of Anthropology, and Dean, International Students, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He is well known for his contributions to forensic anthropology in Indian populations. He has published more than 400 articles in international journals of repute including high impact and reputed journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine, BMJ and The Lancet. Dr. Krishan has contributed to the advancement of forensic science and its applications. He has devised many methods of criminal investigation and formulae which are being used in the criminal investigation process.
He has recently been included among the “WORLD RANKING OF TOP 2% SCIENTISTS” (Positioned at 13th Rank in Legal & Forensic Medicine category in the world (Out of 14,394 forensic scientists of the world) as reported by a team of scientists at the Stanford University, USA and Elsevier BV. He is one of the most cited forensic scientists having with more than 125,000 citations.
He has contributed invited chapters to the most coveted Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences (2013) and Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine (2016) published by Elsevier. He is on the panel of editors of various reputed international journals such as Forensic Science International, Medicine Science and the Law, Archives of Public Health, Journal of Infection in Developing countries, The Science of Nature, Acta Biomedica etc. He is on the reviewer/referee panel of more than 115 international journals of repute and reviewed more than 700 research articles till date. He has been awarded a fellowship of Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI) of Great Britain and Ireland, London for his contributions to forensic anthropology in India. He has delivered many invited lectures in USA, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and parts of Europe.
His research has been cited by more than 1,30,800 studies in the scientific literature.

His Wikipedia profile is available at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewal_Krishan_(forensic_anthropologist)

Dr. Ruma Purkait is an anthropologist with research interests spanning diverse subfields of anthropology. Born and educated in Delhi, the capital of India, she completed her master’s degree in Anthropology and her doctorate in Forensic Anthropology at the University of Delhi. Her work in the field of ear biometrics culminated in the submission of her thesis at Dr. H. S. Gour University, located in central India, where she was awarded the Doctor of Science (DSc) degree in 2015.
Three instruments devised by Dr. Purkait have been granted patent rights by the Government of India. She is the recipient of several national and international awards, including the Young Investigator’s Award from the International Association of Forensic Sciences (1996), the University Grants Commission Research Award (2004), and the V. B. Sahai Award from the Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine (2001). She has published numerous research papers in both national and international journals. The novel measurements she developed for sex determination from fragmentary skeletal remains are widely used and tested in various parts of the world.

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