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  • Ongoing – Special Issue to Forensic Science International: Unveiling the digital trail: MDVI through digital evidence. Urbanova et al. (Eds)

Action publications

  • Merdietio Boedi, R., Angelakopoulos, N., Nuzzolese, E. et al. (2025). Positive identification through comparative dental analysis in mass disaster: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Forensic Sci Med Pathol 21, 916–925. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-024-00876-7

  • Moffat, J., Tambuzzi, S., Franceschetti, L. et al. (2025) The migrant experience through the lens of forensic medicine: the multifaceted utility of asylum applicants’ medico-legal narratives and forensic evidence analysed over time. Int J Legal Med 139, 2605–2620 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-025-03531-0

  • Wilkinson, C., Pizzolato, M., De Angelis, D. et al. (2024) Post-mortem to ante-mortem facial image comparison for deceased migrant identification. Int J Legal Med 138, 2691–2706 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-024-03286-0

  • Rosario Guerra Martí; Andrea Valsecchi; Oscar Ibáñez Panizo; Inmaculada Alemán; Sven Benthaus; Domenico Dellaia; Emilio Nuzzolese (2024). The Potential of Smile Photographs and a PM Intraoral Scanner for Dental Identification. Abstract Book 76th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. 731 https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1957550.

  • S. Blau, J. Roberts, E. Cunha, T. Delabarde, A.Z. Mundorff, H.H. de Boer, (2023) Re-examining so-called ‘secondary identifiers’ in Disaster Victim Identification (DVI): Why and how are they used?, Forensic Science International, Volume 345, 111615, ISSN 0379-0738, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2023.111615

Other publications

  • Palmela Pereira, C., Carvalho, R., Augusto, D. et al. (2025). Development of artificial intelligence-based algorithms for the process of human identification through dental evidence. Int J Legal Med 139, 1835–1850. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-025-03453-x
  • Ketsekioulafis, I., Katsos, K., Kolentinis, C. et al. (2025). Humanitarian forensic medicine: a systematic review. Int J Legal Med 139, 747–761. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-024-03381-2
  • Lanzarone, A., Themelis, P., & von Konig, F. (2025). The 2023 Pylos shipwreck: applying the Disaster Victim Identification Protocol. Forced Migration Review, (75), 11-15. https://www.proquest.com/docview/3223963722?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals
  • Sharon, E., Kahana, T., Wiesner, S., Herman, Y., Einot, N. and Argaman, U., (2025). From theory to practice: Protocol adaptations for swift victim identification in the forensic response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre. Journal of Forensic Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.70127
  • Emma Johnston (2024) The Role of Forensic Science in Identifying Missing Migrants in Europe. PhD Thesis. De Montfort University, UK https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/items/050e33c9-bfb1-4ca7-8983-6abd91ba57db/full
  • Michalski, D., Malec, C., Clothier, E., & Bassed, R. (2024). Facial recognition for disaster victim identification. Forensic Science International, 361, 112108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.112108
  • Nuzzolese, E., Terranova, D., Rosaria, A. L. M., & Calì, C. (2024). Collaborative Image Sharing for the Identification of Deceased and Unidentified Migrants. In Proceedings 20th Meeting of the International Association for Craniofacial Identification 2024 (pp. 85-85).
  • Rizvic, A., Krticic, A., Mandzuka, A., Pucic, M., Jasaragic, E., & Blau, S. (2024). Managing large volume data sets in the process of identifying missing persons: Contributions from the International Commission on Missing Persons. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 69(5), 1690-1698. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15474
  • Palamenghi, A., & Cattaneo, C. (2024). The response of the forensic anthropology scientific community to migrant deaths: Where are we at and where do we stand?. Forensic Science International, 364, 112235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.112235
  • Miranker, M., Daniell, R., Kaplan, M., Flores-Guillen, V., Hernandez, J., Edgar, H., Spradley, K., Herrmann, N. and Giordano, A., (2024). What is a migrant death? An operational definition for a more accurate enumeration of migrant mortality along the US-Mexico border. Forensic science international, 363, p.112156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.112156
  • Siegert, C.C., Kaplan, M.A., Herrmann, N.P. and Spradley, M.K., (2024). The Texas landscape: Accounting for migrant mortality and the challenges of a justice of the peace medicolegal system. Journal on Migration and Human Security, 12(3), pp.257-276. https://doi.org/10.1177/23315024241277528
  • Martínez, D.E., Chambers, S., Boyce, G. and Slack, J., (2024). Impeding access to asylum: Title 42 “expulsions” and migrant deaths in Southern Arizona. Journal on Migration and Human Security, 12(3), pp.182-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/23315024241256642
  • Franceschetti, L., Mazzarelli, D., Ragni, C., Paltenghi, F., Pecoraro, A., Albani, D., Giuffrida, R., Siccardi, C., Polizzi, N., Di Simone, P. and D’Apuzzo, A., (2024). Why identification matters: an explorative study on six cases of family reunification. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 138(3), pp.1187-1192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-024-03163-w
  • Johnson, B.T., (2024). Advances in postmortem fingerprinting: Applications in disaster victim identification. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 69(5), pp.1681-1689. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15513
  • Barbarić, L. and Horjan-Zanki, I., (2023). Challenges in the recovery of the genetic data from human remains found on the Western Balkan migration route. International journal of legal medicine, 137(1), pp.181-193.(2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02829-7
  • Suwalowska, H., Ali, J., de Almeida, J.R., Fonseca, S.A., Heathfield, L.J., Keyes, C.A., Lukande, R., Martin, L.J., Reid, K.M., Vaswani, V. and Wasti, H., (2023). “The Nobodies”: unidentified dead bodies—a global health crisis requiring urgent attention. The Lancet Global Health, 11(11), pp.e1691-e1693. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00420-5/fulltext
  • Obertová, Z., Skrzypek, G., Danišík, M., Rankenburg, K., Cummaudo, M., Olivieri, L., Mazzarelli, D., Cappella, A., Evans, N., Ubelaker, D. and Cattaneo, C., (2023). Stable isotope provenance of unidentified deceased migrants—a pilot study. Biology, 12(11), p.1371. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12111371
  • Biehler-Gomez, L., Palamenghi, A., Baudu, M., Caccia, G., Lanza Attisano, G., Gibelli, D., Mazzarelli, D. and Cattaneo, C., (2023). Skeletal markers of physiological stress as indicators of structural violence: A comparative study between the deceased migrants of the mediterranean sea and the CAL Milano cemetery skeletal collection. Biology, 12(2), p.335. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12020335
  • Doneva, Nada (2023) The incidence of human trafficking in the Republic of North Macedonia and its readiness to meet the minimum standards in the fight against it on the way to EU. EUWEB Legal Essays, Global and International Perspectives, Issue 2/2023 (2). pp. 43-67. ISSN 2785-5228 https://www.euweb.org/euweb-legal-essays-2-2023/
  • Rosario, G. M., Valsecchi, A., Oscar, I. P., Alemán, I., Benthaus, S., Dellaia, D., & Nuzzolese, E. (2024). The Potential of Smile Photographs and a PM Intraoral Scanner for Dental Identification. AAFS.
  • Ketsekioulafis, I., Katsos, K., Kolentinis, C. et al. (2025). Humanitarian forensic medicine: a systematic review. Int J Legal Med 139, 747–761. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-024-03381-2
  • Cattaneo, C., De Angelis, D., Mazzarelli, D., Porta, D., Poppa, P., Caccia, G., D’Amico, M. E., et al. (2023). The rights of migrants to the identification of their dead: an attempt at an identification strategy from Italy. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 137(1), 145–156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-022-02778-1
  • Cattaneo, C., Massetti, E., Farinosi, F., & Dasgupta, S. (2024). Climate variability and worldwide migration: current evidence and future projections. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad91cb
  • Pilli, E., Palamenghi, A., Morelli, S., Mazzarelli, D., De Angelis, D., Jantz, R. L., & Cattaneo, C. (2023). How physical and molecular anthropology interplay in the creation of biological profiles of unidentified migrants. Genes, 14(3), 706. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14030706
  • Cappella, A., Solazzo, R., Mazzarelli, D., Gibelli, D., Dolci, C., Sforza, C., & Cattaneo, C. (2024). The potential of facial nevi in personal identification. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 6206. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56847-z
  • Martínez-Moreno, P., Valsecchi, A., Mesejo, P., Ibáñez, Ó., & Damas, S. (2024). Evidence evaluation in craniofacial superimposition using likelihood ratios. Information Fusion, 111, 102489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2024.102489
  • Guerra, R., Martos, R., Ibáñez, Ó., Valsecchi, A., Bermejo, E., De Luca, S., Guativonza, M. A., R-García, G., Martínez-García, V., Casallas, D., & Obertova, Z. (2025). International validation study of AI-guided Craniofacial Superimposition in a contemporary population sample. Forensic Science International, 112628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2025.112628
  • Martos, R., Ibáñez, O., & Mesejo, P. (2024). Artificial intelligence in forensic anthropology: State of the art and Skeleton-ID project. Methodological and Technological Advances in Death Investigations, 83–153. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819394-5.00006-7
  • Mavroudas, S. R., Pavlidis, P., & Karakasi, M. V. (2024). A retrospective of deaths related to migration along the southeasternmost land borders of Europe: an update encompassing the years 2015–22. Disasters, 48(3), e12620. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12620
  • Evert, L., Fonseca, S., & Rossouw, V. (2025). Missing migrants in Southern Africa: building State investigation capacity. Forced Migration Review, 75, 43–46. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/missing-migrants-southern-africa-building-state/docview/3223964742/se-2?accountid=12118
  • Palamenghi, A. (2024). Virtual Anthropology and Commingled Skeletal Remains: Resources and potential for personal identification in humanitarian forensic contexts. Doctoral Thesis, University of Milan. https://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/1048348
  • Jantz, R. L., Palamenghi, A., Bertoglio, B., Manthey, L., Mazzarelli, D., & Cattaneo, C. (2024). Craniometric Relationships of Migrant Victims of the April 18, 2015 Shipwreck Off the Coast of Libya. Forensic Anthropology (UF), 7. https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB…
  • Pilli, E., Palamenghi, A., & Cattaneo, C. (2025). Forensic skeletal and molecular anthropology face to face: Combining expertise for identification of human remains. Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences, 1550(1), 77–107. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15398
  • Fradejas-García, I., & Ramírez March, Á. (2025). ¿Crisis migratoria en las Islas Canarias? Regímenes de (in)movilidad, poscolonialidad y resistencias fronterizas. ASAEE Congress 2025. https://asaee-antropologia.org/…