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The Editor

Dr. Jehuda Yinon is currently a visiting professor of forensic science at the
National Center for Forensic Science (NCFS), University of Central Florida
(UCF), Orlando, Florida.
Dr. Yinon received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering
from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel), and his
Ph.D. in chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel).
Dr. Yinon was a senior research fellow at the Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot, Israel, for 35 years, until 2000. He was a research associate
(1971 to 1973) and a senior research associate (1976 to 1977) at Caltech’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, California), and spent sabbatical leaves as
a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) (1980 to 1981), the EPA Environ-
mental Monitoring Systems Laboratory (Las Vegas, Nevada) (1988 to 1989),
and the University of Florida, Gainesville (1993 to 1994).
Dr. Yinon’s main research interests are applications of mass spectrometry
techniques in forensic science with emphasis on analysis of explosives and
the application of novel technologies to the detection of explosives.
Dr. Yinon has authored, coauthored, and edited 7 books and published
over 100 papers in the scientific literature. He is a member of the American
Academy of Forensic Science, the American Chemical Society, the American
Society for Mass Spectrometry, and the Israel Society for Mass Spectrometry.
He is a regional editor of Forensic Science Review and is on the editorial
boards of the Journal of Energetic Materials, Environmental Forensics Journal,
and Modern Mass Spectrometry.

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