Tom Gersbeck, MFS

Military Liaison, Graduate Faculty in Arson-Explosives Investigation (AEI).

School of Forensic Sciences
Phone: (918) 561-8464

tom.gersbeck@okstate.edu

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Biography

After retiring from the Marine Corps as an EOD Officer in 2001, Tom joined the Federal Air Marshal Service and served as the Explosives Branch Chief of the National Explosives Detection Canine Program, and with the Explosives Division as an Explosives Security Specialist until 2010. 

Tom then spent 5 years working in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cambodia, Tanzania and India in a number of positions; including, in-country Program Manager of the JATAC Counter-IED Mobile Training Teams, Lead of a Triage laboratory in a CEXC, instructor training deminers in high-threat areas, and as a guest professor. 

In March 2014, Tom joined the OSU, AEI program as an adjunct professor, and moved to a full-time position in December 2014. 
Tom’s book, Practical Military Ordnance Identification; part of the “Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigation” series, was published in 2014. In 2015, he was promoted to “Fellow” in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

 

Education

• MFS: National University
• BS: Park University