People Group Archives: Faculty and Staff

Christopher Randles has taught at almost all levels of the K-16 education sector. He received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry with Forensic Science and Toxicology, teaching license for secondary science and Ph.D. in chemistry education under the mentorship of Professor Tina Overton from the University of Hull, UK. He moved to the United States in 2016 […]

Dana-Marie Dennis is an Associate Lecturer of Chemistry and a secondary joint appointment at the National Center for Forensic Science. She possesses a BS in Forensic Science and a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Central Florida. She teaches in the forensic science undergraduate program.

Tamara Legron-Rodriguez investigates student learning in chemistry and forensic science. Current projects involve student perceptions of learning environments, student identity, sense of belonging, and Universal Design for Learning.

Dr. Adams is a biological anthropologist who specializes in dental anthropology, bioarchaeology, and forensic anthropology, mixed methods, and ethics. They received their B.A. and B.S. from University at Albany, SUNY (2013); M.S. in Forensic Anthropology from Boston University School of Medicine (2015); and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Nevada, Reno (2020). Their bioarchaeological […]

Dr. Freidline is a biological anthropologist who specializes in paleoanthropology. Her research focuses on the evolution and development of human craniofacial morphology. She applies state-of-the-art methods to interpret craniofacial growth in fossil species ranging from Homo erectus to H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens with the ultimate goal of better understanding the evolution of the H. sapiens face. Dr. Freidline combines geometric morphometric methods […]

John Lucchi graduated with his B.S. in Physics at the Rowan University in 2018, where he began his research experience in spectroscopy and spectrometry. In 2023, he graduated with his Ph.D. with an M.S. along the way in Chemistry at the University of Central Florida working on a “Chemical Approach to Tire Mark Analysis” under […]

Michael Sigman studied chemistry at Southwest Missouri State University, receiving a B.S. degree in 1982. His doctoral research in physical organic chemistry was undertaken at Florida State University. In 1986 he moved to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as an NIH postdoctoral fellow, and then moved to the University of Chicago in 1987 for two […]

Larry Tang is a statistician specializing in statistical methodology and collaborative research. His current methodological research areas include statistical methods in forensics, diagnostic medicine, group sequential designs and substance abuse research and criminology.  He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Southern Methodist University in 2005. He did postdoctoral training in the Department of Biostatistics at […]

Mary Williams earned a B.S. and a M.S. degree in Forensic Science at the University of Central Florida. She began working at NCFS as a chemist in 1999. She is the Research Program Coordinator for NCFS providing administrative assistance to research faculty and a researcher.  She has developed and administered five of the NCFS databases. […]

Dr. Ni received his B.S. degree in computational mathematics in 1996 at Fudan University.  He received his Ph.D. degree in Statistics in 2003 at the University of Minnesota.  His area of research is in multivariate analysis, dimension reduction, regression analysis, data mining, and bioinformatics.