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Giuliana Leon-Carrillo

Ph.D. Student

Giuliana Leon-Carrillo is a second-year Ph. D. student in the Morris Research Group. She is currently working on the statistical evaluation of evidence in cold cases.

Giuliana Leon-Carrillo is a second year Ph. D. student in the Morris Research Group, she is currently working on the statistical evaluation of evidence in cold cases. She earned her bachelor's degree in Biological Chemistry from the University of Sonora in Mexico. She has two graduate degrees, a Master of Sciences in Molecular Biomedicine from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City, and an Erasmus Mundus Master of Sciences in Forensic Sciences, a joined program from Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom. 

Giuliana has completed many workshops, and she has worked as an analyst in an Environmental Accredited Laboratory in her hometown in Sonora, Mexico, and as a Forensic Chemist and as a Crime Scene Investigator in the General Ministry of Justice of the State of Sonora. She has also been a member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Science and the Royal Society of Chemistry. 

Currently she is working as a Teaching Assistant in the Sociology and Anthropology Department of West Virginia University, where also has gained teaching experience in the Forensic and Investigative Science and Biology Departments.