Lowell J. Levine is a forensic scientist and co-director of operations for the New York State Police Forensic Sciences Unit. After receiving a doctor of dental surgery degree from New York University, he served two years of active duty as a dental officer in the U.S. Navy and recently retired from U.S. Naval Reserve as a captain.

A former president of the American Academy of Forensic Odontology, Dr. Levine has testified as an expert witness in celebrated cases nationwide, including that of serial murderer Theodore Bundy, as well as in federal courts, courts martial, and committees of the Congress of the United States. He has established an international reputation for his participation in the identification of Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele, the investigation by the "Commission on the Disappeared"; of Argentina, and most recently as a member of a team of experts that traveled to Ekaterinburg, Russia to examine the remains of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.

Dr. Levine also has served as a consultant to the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission investigating the MOVE conflagration and the U.S. Army's Central Identification Laboratory identifying MIAs of Vietnam. He participated in the medical-legal investigation of the sailors killed on the USS Stark, as well as the Select Committee on Assassinations of the US House of Representatives, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In addition to training scientists in Indonesia, Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador and other countries for various governments and agencies, Dr. Levine has published numerous scientific papers and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

A distinguished alumnus of Hobart College, he is a recipient of the college's Medal of Excellence.