Prof Eva Scheurer is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at University of Basel, director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine Basel, full professor for Forensic Medicine at the Medical Faculty, and lecturer at the Faculty of Law of University Basel. She completed her medical doctorate in 1999 from the University of Bern and holds a diploma in physics, was director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Clinical-Forensic Imaging, Graz, Austria, and is certified as generally accredited and court-certified expert for forensic medicine in Austria. Since 2014, Scheurer has been a member of the Medical Coordination Committee, an overarching strategic body for the management of medical practice and research in Northwestern Switzerland, and since 2015 she has also been member of the Senate of the University of Basel.

Scheurer’s research focuses on adapting MR based methods, i.e. morphologic as well as quantitative MRI, for clinical-forensic cases like age estimation, strangulation, fracture dating, and the detection and dating of hematomas.