Simon A. Cole is a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and a Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is currently a Co-Investigator (with Professor Michael Lynch) on a National Science Foundation-funded comparative study of the legal-scientific controversies surrounding forensic identification by fingerprints and DNA. He is the author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Harvard, 2001). He has testified as an expert witness in several hearings on the admissibility of fingerprint evidence. He received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University.

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