Forensic Medicine & Imaging

Head of Unit | Prof. Michael Thali, MD
Deputy Head of Unit | Stephan Bolliger, MD

This unit of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Zurich provides a range of services to a range of individuals and agencies that contain mostly governmental bodies such as cantonal district attorneys’ offices.

Clinical forensic medicine

• Emergency traffic medicine
• Sexual assault
• Violent crimes
• Alcohol and drug use

Death investigation

• External inspections of corpses at the scene (so-called legal inspections)
• Autopsies
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Computed Tomography
• 3D surface scanning
• Histology and ancillary services

Expert opinions

• Expertise