Professor Ira S. Lurie

Professor Ira Lurie received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, under the direction of Professor Peter Schoenmakers, where his thesis described the use of ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) for the analysis of seized drugs. He is retired from USA Drug Enforcement Administration where he served for almost 40 years as a forensic chemist. During his tenure with the DEA, where he served as the agency’s expert in liquid phase separations.

Dr. Lurie has co-edited a book, and authored or co-authored 7 book chapters and over 80 peer reviewed articles. Professor Lurie has testified more than 40 times in state courts, federal courts and in Singapore. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). 

Dr. Lurie is the winner of the 2015 Paul L. Kirk Award, the highest form of recognition one can receive from the Criminalistics Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Recently Professor Lurie was named as the 22nd highest cited author in forensic science in the USA. His research interest includes novel separation and detection techniques for drug analysis i.e. ultra-high performance supercritical fluid chromatography (UHPSFC), the use of novel ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) stationary phases, multi-dimensional (UHPLC), and gas chromatography (GC) coupled to cold electron ionization (EI) mass spectrometry (MS) and/or vacuum ultraviolet detection (VUV). Since his time at GWU he has received NIJ research grants totaling close to 800K. Among the classes he instructs are Advanced Instrumental Analysis and Forensic Drug Analysis.