Edited 2025/May
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 Junw - 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- present)
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.
Five times as PhD thesis opponent/examinator (PhD students in Norway, Australia and Sweden).
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):
- 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
- Advanced Relationship inference (together with D. Kling), AFDIL, Dover, USA, 2020
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”. (2008 march-2010 may )
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, "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.
Oral pres "Whole genome sequencing of human remains to enable genealogy DNA database searches – A case report", ISFG, Prague, Czech Republic. Sep 2019.
Oral pres "Universal method for species identification using massively parallel sequencing - combining multiple targets", ESWG meeting, St Petersburg, Russia, Sep 2018
Oral pres "The use of the NGS-based QIAseq™ Investigator SNP ID Panel in complex relationship testing: From idea to accreditation", Qiagen Investigator Forum, Prauge, 2017.
Oral pres "Increasing the Power in Paternity and Relationship Testing Utilizing MPS for the Analysis of a Large SNP Panel", ESWG meeting, Budapest, 2016
Oral pres "Quality Assurance of the Biostatistical Workflow in Forensic Genetic Casework", AAFS, Las Vegas, 2016
Oral pres "A SNP panel for identity and relationship testing using next generation sequencing technology", ISFG, Polen, 2015.
Oral pres (Invited): "Statistical challenges in relationship testing", Investigator Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2014.
Oral pres: "Species determination of DNA-mixtures using next generation sequencing", ISFG, Australia, 2013.
Oral pres (Invited): "Species determination using Next Generation Sequencing", Qiagen Investigator Forum, Hilden, Germany, 2013.
Oral pres: "Species determination of mixtures by DNA analysis using 454-sequencing.", ESWG, Copenhagen, 2012.
Oral pres: "STRs, SNPs or DIPs as supplementary markers in paternity testing.", ESWG, Copenhagen, 2012.
Oral pres: "Species determination of mixtures by DNA analysis using 454-sequencing", ENFSI DNA WG Meeting, Linköping, 2012
Poster pres: "Effect of Linkage between vWA and D12S391 in Kinship Analysis" together with O'Connor KL and Butler J., ISFG, Wien, 2011
Oral pres: "Linked markers on the X-chromosome - Practical issues regarding statistical interpretation", ESWG, Stockholm, 2010.
Oral pres: ”Using X-chromosomal markers in relationship testing: How to calculate likelihood ratios taking linkage and linkage disequilibrium into account”, ISFG, Argentina, 2009.
Oral pres: “Population genetics of eight X-STRs in a Swedish population sample”, DNA in Forensics, Ancona, 2008.
Poster: "Estimating human age in forensic samples by analysis of telomere repeats", ISFG, Copenhagen, 2007.
Poster: "Discrimination of human and non human remains by specis-specific DNA pyrosequencing", DNA in Forensics, Innsbruck, 2006.
Oral pres: "DNA analyses in immigration cases: What is the risk of errors?" and poster: "Discrimination of human and non human remains by specis-specific DNA pyrosequencing", Helsingfors, 2006.