Dr. Lauryn DeGreeff is an award-winning chemist with more than 15 years of experience studying the chemistry of odor and canine odor detection. She has in an associate professor of chemistry at Florida International University in Miami, FL with more than 30 publications and 3 patents and was listed as a top 30 Influential Woman Role Models by the American Society of Naval Engineers. Publications include the book Canines: The Original Biosensor, released in 2022. Dr. DeGreeff graduated from FIU with a Ph.D. in Forensic Chemistry in 2010. Prior to returning to FIU in 2021 as a professor, she conducted a fellowship at the FBI, Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit. After, she spent ten years as a researcher and principal investigator in the Chemistry Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. Dr. DeGreeff regularly lectures on the dynamics of odor for the operational canine detection community and at national and international scientific conferences, organized the Canine Detection Science Conference (K9SciCon) in 2023, and is on the organizing committee of the upcoming Joint Symposium for Working K9s (JSWK9) to be held in Atlanta in April 2025.
