Dr. Kirk Yeager

Dr. Kirk Yeager received his BS in chemistry from Lafayette College and PhD in inorganic chemistry from Cornell University. For ten 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 thirty years of experience with improvised explosives and IEDs; he has presented over 200 talks at international meetings and conferences; and he has produced over eighty 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.