Duarte Nuno Vieira

Prof. Duarte Nuno Vieira is Full Professor and Past Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra and visiting professor in several other Portuguese, European, Asian and South American universities. Chairman of the Ibero-American Network of Forensic Sciences, of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Chairman, of the Thematic Federation on Legal and Forensic Medicine of the European Union of Medical Specialists, and Vice-President of the European Confederation of Experts on Evaluation and Repair of Bodily Injury. Past President of the International Academy of Legal Medicine, International Association of Forensic Sciences, World Association of Police Medical Officers, European Council of Legal Medicine, Mediterranean Academy of Forensic Sciences, and of the Latin American Association of Medical Law, among others. Past President of the Portuguese National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences and of the Portuguese Medico-Legal Council. Works, on regular basis, as Temporary Forensic Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Member of the Forensic Advisory Board of the International Committee of the Red Cross and of the Forensic Expert Group of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims. Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine and of the Institute of Bioethics of the Faculty Medicine of the University of Coimbra. Executive Director of the Coimbra University Centre for Humanitarian and Human Rights Forensic Research and Training and member of the Executive Board of the Centre for Biomedical Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra