Speakers
Oscar Yanes
IISPV, CIBERdem, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, SpainObtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2006 and completed postdoctoral training at The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California). Since 2011, he is Scientific Coordinator of the Metabolomics Platform of CIBERdem and Assistant Professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, where he co-leads the MIL@b group. His research bridges experimental and computational metabolomics, focusing on LC–MS, GC–MS and MS imaging. He has coordinated numerous national and international projects, published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and currently serves as President of the Spanish Metabolomics Society (SESMet) and Coordinator of the Spanish Metabolomics Network (MetaboRed).
Ana María García Campaña
Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Granada, SpainFull Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Granada and leader of the research group “Quality in Food, Environmental and Clinical Analytical Chemistry” (FQM-302). Her work focuses on advanced chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques coupled to mass spectrometry for food safety, contaminant analysis and biomarker discovery. She has authored over 240 scientific articles, co-written 30 book chapters and edited several books. She currently serves as Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies and Continuing Education and as Vice-President of the Spanish Society of Chromatography (SECyTA). She is included in the world ranking of the Stanford University “the World Scientists: World´s Top 2% Scientists”.
Johannes Rainer
Institute for Biomedicine of Eurac Research, Bolzano, ItalyPrincipal investigator for computational mass spectrometry (MS) and metabolomics at the Institute for Biomedicine of Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy. Next to the analysis, and integration, of large scale metabolomics and proteomics data sets, he and his team are developing and contributing to R/Bioconductor software packages for MS data analysis, including, among others, xcms and Spectra. Dr Rainer is also co-founder of the RforMassSpectrometry initiative and member of the Bioconductor Community Advisory Board.
Víctor González-Ruiz
CEU San Pablo University, Madrid, SpainSenior Researcher at the Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis (CEMBIO), CEU San Pablo University (Madrid, Spain), where he leads projects on reproductive health metabolomics and instrumental innovation. His research integrates advanced LC–MS and CE–MS workflows with data-science approaches to investigate the complex biochemical mechanisms underlying disease. He collaborates actively with national and international research partners, scientific networks, and private stakeholders, and is committed to promoting open, reproducible metabolomics and interdisciplinary training for the next generation of scientists.
Julia Kuligowski
Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, SpainSenior researcher at the Health Research Institute La Fe (Valencia, Spain) whose work centers on metabolomics and lipidomics in neonatal health. She applies advanced metabolic and lipidic fingerprinting to identify biomarkers in newborn biofluids, particularly in hypoxic-ischemic conditions and oxidative/nitrosative stress–related pathologies. Her research also explores personalized nutrition for preterm infants, examining how maternal diet shapes human milk composition and the lipid profile and function of milk-derived extracellular vesicles. Actively engaged in international metabolomics and lipidomics initiatives, she has contributed to major societies, including the Metabolomics Society’s Board of Directors, and authored >150 peer-reviewed publications.
Cristian Iperi
Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, SwitzerlandImmunologist and bioinformatician at the Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich. His research focuses on B-cell metabolism in autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, and Sjögren’s syndrome, using multi-omics data and integrative computational approaches. He is the creator of Biomix and leads the homonymous consortium, which develops user-friendly tools enabling non-bioinformaticians to perform advanced multi-omics integration. Biomix provides access to state-of-the-art algorithms such as MOFA, DIABLO, SNF, and NEMO, alongside novel in-house methods, supporting translational research and the discovery of molecular mechanisms underlying immune dysregulation.
José Camacho
University of Granada, Granada, SpainFull Professor with the Department of Signal Theory, Telematics and Communication, researcher in the Information and Communication Technologies Research Centre, and leader of the Computational Data Science Laboratory (CoDaS Lab) at the University of Granada, Spain. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Granada (2003) and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Valencia (2007). He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Girona and was a Fulbright fellow in 2018 at Dartmouth College, USA. He specializes in extracting knowledge from data and the design of new algorithms to do so. He has more than 100 publications, half of them in highly cited impact journals (JCR).
Emma Schymanski
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, LuxembourgProfessor and Head of the Environmental Cheminformatics group at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg. She holds a double degree in Chemistry and Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia (Perth), completed her PhD at UFZ Leipzig and her postdoctoral training at Eawag, Switzerland. Her research combines cheminformatics and high-resolution mass spectrometry to elucidate unknown chemicals in complex samples, with a focus on non-target screening and exposomics. She is a strong advocate for FAIR and open science and plays key roles in numerous international initiatives, including MassBank, MetFrag and the NORMAN Suspect List Exchange. She has authored over 130 publications and received more than 18,000 citations.
Jürgen Hartler
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Graz, AustriaJürgen Hartler is a bioinformatician specializing in the development of algorithms and tools for mass spectrometry data analysis, particularly for lipidomics. He has been awarded a DOC and Max Kade fellowship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the latter allowing him to work at the LIPID MAPS laboratory at UC San Diego. His achievements in lipidomics were recognized by the Stefan Schuy award (ÖGBMT) and the distinguished Mattauch-Herzog award (DGMS). Currently, he is an assistant professor at the University of Graz, heading the Computational Pharmacology group and serving as deputy director of the Doctoral School of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He also focuses on lipidomics data standardization and quality assessment methods.
David Touboul
Polytechnique School in Palaiseau, CNRS (France)Dr. D. Touboul is Research Director at CNRS and Professor at Polytechnique School in Palaiseau (France). After a PhD in France in mass spectrometry, including MALDI and SIMS imaging, he spent two years as a post-doctoral fellowship in the group of Prof. R. Zenobi (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) in the field of non-covalent mass spectrometry. In 2008, he got a Research Associate at CNRS and developed new methods in mass spectrometry imaging and metabolomics including lipidomics (molecular network with MetGem software, SFC-HRMS/MS, ion mobility, metal-cationization in the gas phase …). He has supervised more than 12 PhD students and 10 post-doctoral fellows. He is managing national and international projects enabling access to a range of up-to-date instruments (GC-TQ, timsTOF, FT-ICR and ExcedIon Pro Orbitrap).
Alberto Gil de la Fuente
CEU San Pablo University, Madrid, SpainAssociate Professor at Universidad San Pablo-CEU (Madrid, Spain), where he leads the computational metabolite annotation research line within the Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis (CEMBIO). His research focuses on methodological developments in computational metabolomics, designing open-source algorithms and data-driven models to improve metabolite identification and structural annotation in MS-metabolomics. He and his team created and maintain CEU Mass Mediator, and develop computational strategies that exploit MS¹, MS/MS, and contextual information to support confident metabolite identification. His work aims to formalize and standardize annotation workflows, increasing robustness, reproducibility, and biological interpretability in metabolomics studies.
