Annual Meeting

Gunda Koellensperger is an analytical chemist and a professor at the University of Vienna, where she leads a research group in mass spectrometry-based bioanalytical chemistry. Trained as an analytical chemist, she has built an interdisciplinary profile at the interface of chemistry, biology, and medicine, mentoring numerous early-career scientists and contributing to national and international research networks. She holds leadership roles in scientific societies, networks and the cluster of excellence « circular bioengineering ». Currently, she serves as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Vice President of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry. Her research focuses on analytical metabolomics, with an emphasis on designing customized workflows that integrate quantitative targeted analyses and non-targeted screening. In addition, she advances analytical metallomics, particularly high-resolution, single-cell imaging for element- and metal-focused biological investigations.

Prof Tim Ebbels was awarded his PhD in 1998 from the University of Cambridge. His group focuses on the application of bioinformatic, machine learning and chemometric techniques to post-genomic data, with a particular emphasis on computational metabolomics. Key areas of interest are NMR & MS data processing, data integration, visualisation, network analysis, time series and metabolite annotation. He is particularly known for the ‘BATMAN’ software for analysing complex metabolic NMR spectra, and more recently his work using biological pathways to build interpretable models of metabolomics and other omics data. Tim is a previous Director of the international Metabolomics Society and a co-founder of the London Metabolomics Network. He has supported numerous efforts promoting quality and reusability of metabolomics data and is an editorial board member for BMC Bioinformatics. He has a strong commitment to education, serving as Director of the MRes in Biomedical Research at Imperial College (>1000 students trained) and leading Imperial’s Data Analysis in Metabolomics short course. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Metabolomics Society.