PhD Student, University of Zurich Nina is a PhD student at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She studied Biology at the University of Belgrade and completed a Master’s Degree in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich, on human dispersal and its individual- and population-level consequences in pre-modern Canton of Switzerland. In her PhD she is focusing on integration of the development of applied wildlife DNA forensic tools with the fundamental conservation genomics research. The ultimate aim of her PhD project is the development and validation of a robust method for identification of animal species from mixture samples and the development of a blueprint for a population assignment testing using NGS for Forensic purposes. This PhD is running in collaboration between the Institute of Forensic Medicine Zurich, The University of Edinburgh and Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich This article was published on 2024-09-02