Emil W. Ciurczak BA, MS

Emil W. Ciurczak has advanced degrees in Chemistry from Rutgers and Seton Hall Universities and has been in the pharmaceutical industry since 1970. In 1983, he introduced NIR spectroscopy to pharmaceuticals and consulted for instrument companies. He has published over four dozen articles in refereed journals, over 250 magazine columns, and presented over two hundred technical papers.

Since 2005, Emil has been Contributing Editor for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine (for Spectroscopy; 1987-2007 and PharmaEvolution.com 2013-4). He has written and edited several texts and chapters including “Handbook of NIR Analysis” (3 editions), “Pharma and Med Applications of NIR (2 editions),” “Molecular Spectroscopy Workbench,” and chapters on NIR applications in life sciences