Companies
hologram manufacturers)
Anna Wandschneider received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from Rostock University, Germany in 2009 and immediatly joined the Identity Documents department in the Forensic Science Institute of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt).
In the following years, she became an ID Document Examiner. Her duties include the preparation of written and oral expert opinions on questioned documents for law enforcement agencies, and as evidence to be presented in court.
Anna shares her professional expertise in a number of national and international working groups for increasing the counterfeit deterrence of identity documents, and is a regular member of the European Commission’s Committee on a uniform format for visa (Article 6 Committee).
The speed at which high-quality counterfeit of the new Schengen visas have developed shows clearly that document forgery is becoming a lucrative arena for organised crime.