Dr. Josep De Alcaraz-Fossoul is an Associate Professor of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences. He earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Liverpool, an M.S. in Criminalistics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, an M.S. in Biology from the University of Girona, and a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Wales. Before entering academia, he served nearly a decade as a forensic scientist with the Scientific Police Division of the Catalonia Police (Mossos d'Esquadra) and completed postdoctoral research at the Biomedical Research Institute of Barcelona. He has also taught at the University of Barcelona, California State University, Los Angeles, and Arizona State University. His research focuses on latent fingerprint aging, microbiome analysis, molecular biology, and the development of objective methods for estimating fingerprint time-since-deposition. He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and an edited forensic science reference book. Dr. Fossoul also serves as a forensic consultant and peer reviewer for numerous scientific journals and is an active member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the International Association for Identification.