Kimberly Sturk-Andreaggi earned her Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering in 2003 from the University of Pittsburgh. She moved from Pittsburgh to Washington DC in 2004 to attend graduate school at the George Washington University. At the same time, she started working at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFDIL) in the Research/Emerging Technologies section. In 2005, she received a Master of Forensic Science in Forensic Molecular Biology from the George Washington University. She was awarded her doctoral degree in 2022 from Uppsala University under the supervision of Marie Allen in the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology. Dr. Sturk-Andreaggi has worked at the Medical Examiner System’s Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory since 2004. She started as a Research Technician in the Emerging Technologies (formerly Research) section, before moving up to a Research Analyst, then Research Associate. For the last nine years, Dr. Sturk-Andreaggi has been a Research Scientist, and she was recently promoted to the role of Chief of Emerging Technologies. Her primary focus is on the application of next-generation sequencing technologies for application to human identification efforts.