Vienna's goal is to make communities safer via research, development of novel forensic tools, and advocacy.

Vienna Lam is a forensic taphonomy (aquatic deaths) and injury prevention researcher, university educator, and Senior Analyst (Port Moody), with 10+ years of combined leadership experience as a Manager for the SFU Centre for Forensic Research Entomology Lab and SFU South Pacific Archaeology Lab. She recently defended her PhD as a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier scholar.

Her studies include geospatial analyses of fatal drowning locations, quantifying risk, and aquatic body decomposition from a medicolegal and forensic anthropological perspective. Her favorite part involves transforming unstructured data into insights and getting the general public excited about health and research. She is also working on building Canada's first Pacific taphonomy research facility. In her spare time, she shares her love of forensic science at public libraries and schools with several non-profits that support equitable access to STEM education.