Oliver Schmitz
Coupling GC with SLIM-qTOF-MS for a powerful orthogonal two-dimensional separation of complex samples
After his doctorate in 1997 in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal (BUW), he spent one year in the Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians University of Munich and two years as a post-doc in the Division of Molecular Toxicology at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg.Between 2001 and 2008 Schmitz was been a senior staff member in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the BUW in Germany. In 2004 he was designated as an associate professor at the BUW, and 2009 he got a full professor in Analytical Chemistry at this university. Between 2010 and 2012 he was the chair of the Analytical Chemistry department at BUW. Since October 2012 Schmitz has been a full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and is the chair of the Institute of Applied Analytical Chemistry.2009 he cofounded the company iGenTraX UG which develops new ion sources and units to couple separation techniques with mass spectrometers. In 2018 he founded, together with Agilent Technologies, the Teaching and Research Center for Separation, one of Agilent`s Center of Excellence.Since 2013 Prof. Schmitz is the chairman of the analytica conferences worldwide (China and Vietnam and USA) and a consultant of analytica Munich. In 2023, Schmitz, together with Prof. Michael Lämmerhofer, was chairman of the world's largest conference for separation technologies, the 51st HPLC in Düsseldorf.Prof. Schmitz is recognized as an international expert in analytical chemistry, especially in the development of ion sources, multidimensional chromatography, ion mobility-mass spectrometry and metabolomics.