Job Role and Responsibilities

There are many various things that a forensic scientist may do on any given day:

- Visiting crime scenes in order to plan how and what evidence to collect
- Collecting, cataloging and preserving criminal evidence that may be used to solve cases
- Photographing or making sketches of crime scenes
- Reconstructing crime scenes
- Examining, testing, and analyzing evidence including tissue samples, chemical substances, physical materials and ballistics
- Meeting with ballistics, fingerprint, handwriting, document, electronics, medical, chemical or metallurgical experts to discuss and interpret evidence
- Reconstructing crime scenes in order to figure out if and how pieces of evidence are related
- Writing and presenting summaries of findings
- Testifying as an expert witness on evidence or laboratory techniques in trials or hearings