Sevil ATASOY, Ph.D

Prof. Sevil Atasoy was born in İstanbul, 1949. She graduated from German High School and İstanbul University, Faculty of Chemistry. She gained expertise and did doctorate in medical sciences in İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa, Faculty of Medicine, Biochemistry department. She became associate professor and professor in the same branch.

She became the department head of Chemical Expertise Department, Institution of forensic medicine of Ministry of Justice in 1980-1993. She was the manager of Forensic Medical Institute of İstanbul University between 1987-2005. She gave lectures on biochemistry, criminology and its related fields to undergraduates, graduates and doctorate students aside of being an academic member of Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry. She has been a thesis advisor and has been an academic member in the Faculty of Education at Istanbul University until 2009.

Between 2005-2010, she was a board member of United Nations International Drug Control Board (INCB) and became the head of the board. Sevil Atasoy is currently the Vice Rector of Üsküdar University and is the director of the Violence and Crime Prevention and Research Center.

Atasoy received the presidential scholarship two times from DAAD German academic exchange program as well as NATO, EMBO and U.S.A. Hubert H. Humphrey. She was a visiting fellow in İstanbul University, Yıldız Teknik University, Bahçeşehir University, Academy of Turkish International Academy against Drugs and Organized Crime as well as BM Vienna Narcotics Laboratory, German Federal Criminal Authority (BKA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), California Criminalist Institute, Department of Forensic Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, guest educator at the Los Angeles Sheriff's Criminal Laboratories; Los Angeles RAND Corporation, The Department of Physical Biochemistry and Forensic Medicine at the University of Munich Ludwig-Maximilian and the Department of Genetics at the Stanford and Emory Universities, in addition with the Forensic Medicine department of Bremen and Münster Universities.

She served in different commissions of UN Crime and Drug Office UNODC, UN Narcotics Commission CND, Council of Europe Pompidou Group, T.C. the Ministries of Interior and Justice.

Professor Atasoy received national and international awards for her involvement in crime scene investigation, development of criminal laboratories and contribution to DNA analysis.

Atasoy, who has numerous scientific publications in the fields of biochemistry, toxicology and genetics in internationally acclaimed journals, wrote forensic-science based weekly articles in Hürriyet Newspaper called “Evidence Hunter”. She did programs in CNN Türk called “Crime and Evidence” and “Bizarre Works” in HaberTürk. The discussion program “Muhabbet Kralı” in Kanal D received İsmail Cem Best Talkshow program. She is also the concept owner, plot advisor and presenter of a detective TV show in Kanal D that lasted for 100 episodes.

She is the Turkish representative of Victimhood Project initiated by Cardozo Law Faculty (New York). She is a partner of Kanıt Consultancy and its criminal news portal khaber.com.tr. She is also writer of couple of forensic science books.