Edited 2026/Jul
Name: Andreas Tillmar (earlier Karlsson)
Academic title: Associate professor (Docent), PhD, MSc
Date of birth: 1980-07-18
Working address: Artillerigatan 12, 587 58 Linköping
e-mail: andreas.tillmar@rmv.se
Chief geneticist (2025 June - present), Department of Forensic Genetics, National Board of Forensic Medicine, Linköping, Sweden
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Associate professor (Docent) and Adj Senior Lecturer in Forensic Genetics (2014 mars - present), Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden
Forensic geneticist (2006 April - 2025 May), Department of Forensic Genetics, National Board of Forensic Medicine, Linköping, Sweden
>50, Please see my Publication list
PhD student (main supervisor): Adam Staadig (2019 - 2025)
PhD student (co-supervisor): Erik F Bergseth, Department of Forensic Sciences, Norway (2022-present)
Chair of the English Speaking Working Group (ESWG) of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG) (2016 - present)
SWGDAM Invited Guest member (2022 - present)
Member of the Editorial Board of Forensic Science International: Genetics.
Sporadic reviewer for the journals PLOS Computational Biology, European Journal of Human Genetics, Transfusion, Electrophoresis, BioTechniques.
Six times as PhD thesis opponent/examinator (Norway, Australia, Sweden, Portugal).
Technical assessor for accreditation authorities in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway (ISO 17025 and ISO 15189).
Lectures and PBL group tutor for master students at Linköping University covering the areas of applied genetics.
Workshops (international, <5 years):
- Genetic Genealogy in Forensics, (together with D. Kling) ISFG Summer School, virtual event, 2025
- X-chromosomal markers in Forensic Genetics (together with D. Kling) GHEP 2025, virtual, 2025
- Genetic Genealogy in Forensics, (together with D. Kling) ISFG Congress, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2024
- Advanced Relationship inference (together with D. Kling) ISFG Summer School, virtual event, 2023
- Advanced Relationship inference (together with D. Kling) ISFG, Washington,USA, 2022
- Advanced Relationship inference (together with D. Kling) ISFG Summer School, virtual event, 2021
PhD-studies at Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping university and Department of Forensic Genetics, National Board of Forensic Medicine. Title ”Populations and Statistics in Forensic Genetics”. (2008March-2010May).
Graduate School in Biomedical Research/ Linköping University (2005Sep-2006Jun).
Scholar ship / Dep of forensic genetics, Linköping (2005Feb-2005Sep) .
Master of Science in Molecular Biotechnology 180 p / Uppsala University (2000Aug-2005Jan).
NBC-totalförsvar 10 p / Umeå University (1999Aug-2000Jan).
Plenary/Invited oral, "Forensic Genetic Genealogy", Nordic Conference on Forensic Medicine Copenhagen, Denmark, 2026
Plenary/Invited oral, "Genetic Genealogy in Forensics", ISFG Congress, Santiago de Compostela, 2024
Oral pres "SNP Genotype Imputation in Forensics – A Performance Study", ISFG Congress, Washington, 2022
Oral pres "Inferring relationships from whole-genome sequences - A forensic perspective", ISABS Conference, Croatia, June 2022
Oral pres (Keynote) "Forensic genetics ‐ Current practice and future perspectives", SCS 2022, Linköping, June 2022
Oral pres (Keynote) "Investigative Genetic Genealogy: Current Practice and Future Challenges", EAFS, Stockholm, June, 2022
Oral pres "Application of Investigative Genetic Genealogy in Sweden", HIDS, Virtual meeting, May 2021
Oral pres "Getting the Conclusive Lead with Investigative Genetic Genealogy – A Successful Case Study of a 16 Year Old Double Homicide in Sweden", together with Siri A Fagerholm, ISHI, Sep, 2020.