Dr. Isabel Navarro Vera is the technical director and head of the forensic genetics area at the Citogen Laboratory. Since 2019, she has also worked as professor of Genomics and Advanced Pharmacotherapy at San Jorge University.

She has an extensive experience in the field of forensic genetics, having participated in studies and scientific publications of international scope as well as presenting numerous communications in specialized international congresses. Dr. Navarro Vera works actively in collaboration with different professionals such as police, private detectives, lawyers, historians or anthropologists, applying forensic genetics to solve cases of very different natures.

In the recent years, working as technical director and head of the forensic genetics department in Citogen, she has focused her work specially in implementing and validating the use of MPS applied to forensics and in the application of next generation sequencing technologies to Missing Persons projects, including STRs, mtDNA and FIGG studies.