Tsippy Tamiri

Tsippy Tamiri grew up in Rishon LeZion. She enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces at eighteen. After discharge, she obtained a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received a master's degree in chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD in chemistry from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.^[1][2][3]

Tamiri worked at the forensic laboratory of the Israel Police, where she was the head of the mass spectrometry department.^[1] She conducted research in the analysis of explosives,^{[4][5][6][7][8]} drugs^[9][10] and poisons.^[11][12] She published on the preparation,^[13] characterization,^[14][15] and analysis of urea nitrate.^[16][17][18]

Tamiri served as the president of the Israeli Society of Mass Spectrometry.^[19] She served on the organizing committee of the second Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Sea Region Countries Mass Spectrometry – MASSA 2013 Workshop in 2013.^[20]

Book chapter

• Analysis of Explosives by Mass Spectrometry, Tsippy Tamiri and Shmuel Zitrin, in Forensic Investigation of Explosions, A. Beveridge (Ed), 2011.^[3]
• GC/MS Analysis of PETN and NG in Post-Explosion Residues, T. Tamiri, S. Zitrin, S. Abramovich-Bar, Y. Bamberger and J. Sterling, in Advances in Analysis and Detection of Explosives, J. Yinon (Ed), 1993.^[21]

Tamiri received the Yehuda Yinon Award in 2011.^[22]