Institute of Forensic Research is located in Kraków at 9 Westerplatte Street. During the Nazi occupation, he collaborated with the Jagiellonian University on such matters as examining documents and items found next to Polish officers murdered in Katyn. Some of these documents were hidden by employees of the Institute and their copies were handed over to the Polish authorities in exile.
For several decades, the Institute was managed by an outstanding scientist, prof. Dr. Jan Sehn. Today, the director of the Institute is prof. Leszek Wieczorek