Jayne de Vos

“Watching countless episodes of Quincy on television directed my career aspirations towards becoming a forensic scientist,” says Jayne De Vos, who started out in serology in the late 1980s before an interest in drug analysis, toxicology, and arson chemistry grabbed hold. A career shift took Jayne from qualitative chemistry to accurate measurement (metrology). Her interest in separation science and environmental monitoring led to collaboration in 2008 with Peter Gorst-Allman and Jean-Fransçois Focant (University Liége, Belgium), which provided the platform to establish and develop dioxin capability for South Africa. But Jayne is still a forensic analyst at heart.