Chandra Finaughty

Chandra joined King’s Forensics at the beginning of 2022 as a Programme Tutor on the Bolashaq Bespoke Programme. Originally from South Africa, she graduated with a BSc in Human Physiology and Microbiology from the University of Cape Town in 2014. Later, she went on to complete two postgraduate degrees at the same university. The first being a BSc medical honors in Human Anatomy, and the second a MPhil in Biomedial Forensic Science. In 2019 she moved to the United Kingdom and shortly after was offered a competitive scolarship to undertake a second Masters at Cranfield University, which she graduated from in 2021. Chandra has a broad knowledge base in forensic science having worked as a graduate forensic scientist in a South African forensic toxicology unit, a forensic pathology assistant in one of the busiest mortuaries in South Africa, and as as scientific officer on the Biomedical Forensic Science programme at the University of Cape Town. Her research activities mainly focus on the fields of forensic anthropology and forensic genetics, specifically improving methods for DNA extraction from hard tissue, the findings of which she has published.