Dr. Kirk Yeager received his B.S. in Chemistry from Lafayette College and PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Cornell University. For 10 years he served as a Physical Scientist/Forensic Examiner for the FBI Laboratory's Explosives Unit, where he deployed as a bombing crime scene investigator to dozens of countries. Currently, Dr. Yeager is the FBI's Chief Explosives Scientist. Dr. Yeager has nearly 30 years of experience with improvised explosives and IEDs; he has presented over 200 talks at international meetings and conferences; and he has produced over 80 specialty publications in the area of explosives and IEDs. Over the course of his colorful career he has served as a subject matter expert for the National Academies of Sciences, worked as a technical adviser for Mythbusters, and been the subject of a feature article in Popular Mechanics. He is an avid geocacher and holds the rank of Black Belt in Dan Zan Ryu Ju-Jitsu. He lives near Washington, DC.
