Dr. Barry Logan is Executive Director at the non-profit Center for Forensic Science Research and Education (CFSRE) at the Fredric Rieders Family Foundation in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Since 2008 he has also been Chief Scientist at NMS Labs in Horsham PA, where he leads a team of forensic toxicologists and certifying scientists. He holds academic appointments at Arcadia, Thomas Jefferson and Indiana Universities in the United States.

Dr. Logan is a Fellow of the American Board of Forensic Toxicologists (ABFT), and has over 200 publications and has made over 700 presentations in forensic toxicology and analytical chemistry, including work on postmortem and human performance toxicology. In 2023, he was recognized the most highly cited author in the field of forensic toxicology in the United States. His current research priorities are focused on new drug trends, the opioid crisis, rapid reporting of drug mortality data, and the analytical and interpretive toxicology and chemistry of novel psychoactive substances, founding www.NPSDiscovery.org in 2018.

Dr. Logan has received many awards for his insightful and innovative work over his career. His contributions to the field of toxicology were recognized in 2021 by the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT) from whom he received the Alan Curry Lifetime Career Achievement Award for his work in the field. Today he enjoys helping with the development of tomorrows leaders in forensic science, and in bringing young people into leadership roles in the field to strengthen the future of the discipline.