Brooke W. Kammrath, Ph.D., ABC-GKE is a Professor of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven and Co-Executive Director of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science. In addition, she works as a consulting criminalist where she is a qualified expert in both state and federal courts. Professor Kammrath is certified with the American Board of Criminalistics (ABC), is on the Board of Directors for the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS), is an elected member of the Governing Boards of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and the Coblentz Society, is the past-president of the New York Microscopical Society (NYMS), and is a member of several professional organizations (including the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists). She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Spectroscopy Practica.  Dr. Kammrath is the co-editor of the books Portable Spectroscopy and Spectrometry I and II withRichard Crocombe, PhD., and Pauline Leary, PhD. and Solving Problems With Microscopy: Real Life Examples in Forensic, Life and Chemical Sciences with John A. Reffner, PhD, and the co-author of the books Blood Traces with Peter R. DeForest and Peter A. Pizzola, PhD and Forensic Science: Laboratory Manual and Workbook, 4^th Edition with Nicholas Petraco and Thomas Kubic. She has also co-authored 2 university laboratory manuals, 10+ book chapters, 30+ journal articles, 4 encyclopedia articles, and over 100 professional conference presentations.