Tacha Hicks

Tacha Hicks is a forensic scientist. Since 2016, she has been working as a DNA interpretation specialist at the University Center of Legal Medicine, Lausanne – Geneva (Switzerland). Early in her career, through her PhD research on glass (at the School of Criminal Justice, SCJ), she specialized in assessing forensic results given activity level propositions. She worked for three years at the former Forensic Science Service in R&D in the Physical Science department and returned to the University of Lausanne (UNIL) for her postdoc in the area of DNA. She is the SCJ representative at the ENFSI DNA Working Group and since 2009 has been teaching on interpretation issues at UNIL. She has co-authored books and numerous articles on interpretation issues.