About
Dr. Surbhi Mathur is currently working as an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Forensic Science, National Forensic Sciences University. She is a UGC-JRF and completed her doctorate in Forensic Voice Examination from Gujarat Forensic Sciences University, Gujarat. Her area of specialization is Forensic Physical Sciences and Multimedia Forensics.
She has 12.5 glorious years of teaching and Research Experience in forensic science. She has guided over 40 master-level dissertation projects and is supervising her PhD students in forensic physical sciences. She is actively involved in imparting forensic training to Senior Police officers, Probationary police officers, Hon’ble Judicial Magistrates, Assistant Public prosecutors, CBI officials and police officers coming from Nepal, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Ghana and Myanmar, and officials of other international countries. She has undergone several hands- on trainings on various forensic tools and software organized by various government and private sectors.
Dr. Surbhi Mathur has presented several research papers at many prestigious national and international conferences and has received several awards for the same. She has 30 research publications in various peer-reviewed and scopus-indexed journals. She has completed a national research project titled “Critical analysis of the effectiveness of CCTV in law enforcement (crime prevention, detection traffic management etc)” for Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India.
She has been awarded with “Best Women Faculty award” and “Young Researcher Award” by Dept. of Forensic Science & Criminal Investigation, Legal Desire Media and Insights during International Forensic Science & Criminal Investigation Summit & Awards in year 2023 & 2020. Respectively. She has also newly been honored with “Research Excellence Award” from Institute of Scholars, registered under Ministry of MSME, Government of India, in 2021.
She has received immense Recognition for her dedicated work in the field of forensic science from the Home Department, Government of Gujarat for examining and reporting live cases on forensic voice spectrographic analysis since November 2014. She is also reporting cases and rendering opinions related to forensic document examination, voice recognition, CCTV footage analysis, Image enhancement, Audio Video, and image authentication. She is the 79 A certified expert under the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 program with STQC organized by Ministry of Electronics and information technology, Govt. of India.
She is known for her expertise in solving cases by Crime Scene Reconstruction and Photogrammetrical analysis, for which she has extensively traveled in various parts of the country. She has been invited by various national and international forums to deliver talks on various aspects of Forensic Science, especially CCTV Forensics, Audio Examination, and Digital Video and Image analysis. She has successfully delivered a talk at the prestigious 7th INTERPOL digital forensics expert group Meeting organized by the INTERPOL Innovation Centre.
She is among the few Forensic Scientists, who have been invited to deliver a TEDx talk on “Unravelling the Mysteries of Evidence: Where Science Meets Justice” at Silver Oak University, Ahmedabad Gujarat in the year 2023.
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