Rashid Hamdan Al Ghafri

Rashid Hamdan Al Ghafri

Director of the International Center for Criminal Sciences at Dubai Police .

Name in Arabic:
راشد حمدان الغافري
Nationality: Emirati
Country of Residence: United Arab Emirates

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Director of the International Center for Criminal Sciences at Dubai Police since March 2020, United Arab Emirates.

He has been the Chairman of the Council of Scientists at the same entity since November 2017, the Chairman of the Youth Committee in Science at the Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists, a professor at Murdoch University in Australia since September 2020, an Assistant Professor at Bond University in the same country since September 2019, and a faculty member at the United Arab Emirates University .

He held the position of Head of Sector at Dubai Police between 2015 and 2020, and an expert assistant at the same agency. He was an analyst in the Drug Intelligence Team at Victoria Police in Australia during 2008.

He was awarded the “Professorship” in the field of Forensic Sciences in 2022 from “Murdoch University”, and he has about 45 peer-reviewed research papers published in international scientific journals in the field of genetics and forensic medicine.

He obtained a patent for the male genetic fingerprint "RM Y-STR" from the "Intellectual Property Office" in the United Kingdom for patent registration, and his scientific research was published at the "World Congress of Forensic Genetics" in Melbourne, Australia in September 2013 and was internationally accredited in the "Specialized Scientific Journal of Forensic Sciences". He also won first place in the category of creative ideas in 2016 within the "Distinguished Scholarship Award".

He holds a PhD in Forensic Genetics in 2014 from the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom, a Master of Laws specializing in International Business Administration in 2022 from the University of Panthéon-Assas in France, a Master of Forensic DNA Characterization in 2009 from Bond University, and a Bachelor of Analytical Chemistry and Forensic Evidence in 2008 from Flinders University in Australia.

He is also a graduate of the first batch of the “Influential Leaders Program” at the “Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development”, and a graduate of the second batch of the “Emirates Experts Program” representing the research and development sector.

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