Professor Josh P Davis is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Professor in Applied Psychology at the University of Greenwich. His PhD was on the “Forensic Identification of Unfamiliar Faces in CCTV Images” (2007) and he has since published over 35 research articles on human face recognition and eyewitness identification, the reliability of facial composite systems (e.g., E-FIT, EFIT-V), and methods used by expert witnesses to provide evidence of identification in court (‘facial comparison evidence’). Since April 2011, his research has mainly focussed on so called ‘super-recognisers’ with exceptional face recognition abilities. This led to changes in the management and distribution of CCTV images by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) – substantially enhancing suspect identification rates, and he has since worked with other international police forces and Government agencies (e.g., Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore), and businesses (e.g. India). He is regularly interviewed by the international media, including more than 100 TV and radio appearances. His first co-edited book “Forensic Facial Identification: Theory and Practice of Identification from Eyewitnesses, Composites and CCTV” (Wiley Blackwell) was published in 2015.

Dr Tobias Houlton is a facial anthropologist and practicing forensic artist. Tobias has an MSc in Forensic Art and a PhD in Facial Anthropology, both attained at the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID), University of Dundee, UK. Following his PhD, he spent 5 years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. During this time, he formed part of the Human Variation and Identification Research Unit, and delivered specialist craniofacial identification services. He hassince returned to the UK, where he has been appointed the course lead for the MSc in Forensic Art and Facial Imaging programme at the University of Dundee. Tobias has published in established international academic journals, such as Forensic Science International and the Journal of Forensic Sciences. His research interests span the fields of craniofacial identification, forensic anthropology, history of physical anthropology and cultural heritage.

David Skinner is Associate Professor of Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He has a longstanding interest in the politics of race and science. Much of his work has focused on policing and forensic genetics. Recent publications include ‘Race, racism and identification in the era of technosecurity’, Science as Culture, (2020); ‘Forensic genetics and the prediction of race: What is the problem?’, BioSocieties (2020); and (with Matthias Wienroth) ‘Was this an ending? The destruction of samples and deletion of records from the UK Police National DNA Database’, BJHS Themes (2019).

Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips is an Electronic Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Technology Laboratory. Jonathon is a leading researcher in the fields of computer vision, face recognition, biometrics, and forensics. He pioneered the development of competitions in face recognition, biometrics and computer vision. Dr. Phillips was assigned to the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) as a program manager. His work has been reported in print media of record including the New York Times and the Economist. He has appeared on National Public Radio’s ScienceFriday. He received his Ph.D. in operations research from Rutgers University. He served as an Associate Editior of IEEE Trans. on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science; was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; and guest editor of an issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE. He won the inaugural IEEE Mark Everingham Prize, the 2018 IEEE Biometric Council Leadership Award, and two Dept. of Commerce Gold Medals (2003 and 2020). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the IAPR.