F. Anderson

Gail S. Andersonis aforensic entomologist, academic, and associate director of the School of Criminology atSimon Fraser University,Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is an instructor at the Canadian Police College, a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Forensic Sciencesand theCanadian Society of Forensic Science, as well as a member of theCanadian Identification Societyand theInternational Association for Identification.[1] Anderson is the director of the Forensic Entomology Laboratory at Simon Fraser University. The laboratory was established in 1999 and was the first lab in North America to focus specifically on solving crimes through the study of insect biology.[3]She has gone on to create the world's first database of flesh eating insects to be used in murder investigations.[4] Anderson received her undergraduate degree (B.Sc. honours zoology) fromManchester University, and her Master of Pest Management (MPM) and PhD fromSimon Fraser University. Initially Anderson intended to work in the medical veterinary field using entomology, however, when her supervisor at Simon Fraser University had to look for someone to head up forensic entomology in the department after a colleague quit, Anderson decided to take on the role.[5]