Rate My Professor William Gee

Dr. William Gee is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science at Griffith University, within the School of Environment and Science in the Griffith Sciences faculty. He was appointed to this position in 2020. Gee earned a Bachelor of Forensic Science with First Class Honours from Deakin University and completed his PhD in lanthanide cluster chemistry at Monash University. Following his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Monash University before taking up a lectureship in Chemistry and Forensic Science at the University of Kent, where he developed his research profile in advanced materials.

Gee's research centres on applying advanced materials to forensic science problems, with specializations in forensic chemistry, latent fingermark development, luminescent materials, metal-organic frameworks, and solvent-free methodologies. His interests encompass forensic applications of rare earths for anticounterfeiting and fingerprint developers, water-based and hydrogel delivery for fingermark developers, volatile luminescent complexes for non-porous surfaces, post-synthetic modification of metal-organic frameworks, crystalline molecular flasks, and lanthanoid clusters. He has produced over 60 publications, including "Solvent-free strategies for developing latent fingermarks on paper: a review" (2023), "Preparation of a low-cost fingerprint powder that harnesses white light to emit long-lived phosphorescence" (2023), "Water we waiting for? Evaluating a greener, safer, more cost-effective strategy for applying 1,2-indanedione to fingermarks on paper" (2025), "Visualizing the Reaction Products of Sodium Rhodizonate with Lead(II) or Barium(II) Salts: New Insights into Forensic Gunshot Residue Detection" (2026), "Furnishing Amine-Functionalized Metal-Organic Frameworks" (Inorganic Chemistry, 2016), and "The growing importance of crystalline molecular flasks and the crystalline sponge method for structural characterization" (2017). His scholarship has accumulated over 700 citations. Gee teaches specialized courses such as Apply Advanced Fingerprint Detection Techniques and Undertake Fingerprinting of Deceased Persons, often with the Queensland Police Service, and supervises honours and PhD students. He received a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.