Greg Hampikian
Full Name
Greg Hampikian
Speaker Bio

Greg Hampikian, PhD, is Professor of Biology and Criminal Justice at Boise State University (BSU), Director of the Forensic Justice Project and Co-Director of the Idaho Innocence Project (IIP) at BSU. He also directs the BSU Wastewater Epidemiology Lab and lectures on wrongful convictions at the University of Idaho College of Law. His casework has been featured in Science, on the BBC, CNN, and Dateline. His book, Exit to Freedom, co-authored with exoneree Calvin Johnson Jr., chronicles Mr. Johnson’s 17-year fight to prove his innocence using DNA. Hampikian has helped establish innocence organizations in Armenia, France, and Ireland, and served as a DNA expert in more than three dozen exonerations, including Amanda Knox (Italy), Freddie Lawrence and Paul Jenkins (with Montana Innocence Project), Kerry Robinson (with the Georgia Innocence Project), and Christopher Tapp and Charles Fain in Idaho. In both Idaho cases, his lab worked with police to identify new DNA genealogy matches that led to arrests, decades after the crimes.