Sheila Willis (born 11 June 1952) is a pioneer of the introduction of DNA profiling to the Irish legal system. She contributed to the establishment of the national DNA Database System in 2015.[1]

Education

Willis attended University College Dublin graduating with PhD in Chemistry in 1977 and with DSc in Forensic Science in 2019.

Career

Sheila Willis is the president of the Chartered Society of Forensic Scientists.

She was a Director General of Forensic Science Ireland from 2002 to 2016.[2] She received the UCD Alumni Award in Science in 2017.[3] She is an honorary professor at the University of Dundee[4] and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Forensic Research,[5] published by Hilaris, a subsidiary of the notorious predatory publisher, OMICS Publishing Group.[6]

References

  1. ↑ O'Keeffe, Cormac (18 May 2017). "DNA database". Irish Examiner.
  2. ↑ "Former Director General of Forensic Science Ireland". 18 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "UCD Alumni Awardee".
  4. ↑ "Dr Sheila Willis". University of Dundee. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Sheila M Willis | Hilaris SRL". www.hilarispublisher.com. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  6. ↑ Siler, Kyle; Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (28 October 2021). "Predatory publishers' latest scam: bootlegged and rebranded papers". Nature. 598 (7882): 563–565. Bibcode:2021Natur.598..563S. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02906-8. hdl:1866/25816. PMID 34703002. S2CID 239999772.


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