Society Committees

Conference Committee

Natasa Giallourou
Natasa Giallourou Chair
Warwick "Rick" Dunn
Warwick "Rick" Dunn
María Eugenia Monge
María Eugenia Monge
Roy Goodacre
Roy Goodacre
Kati Hanhineva
Kati Hanhineva
Jessica Lasky Su Honorary Fellowship 2025
Jessica Lasky-Su
Matej Oresic
Matej Orešič
Tomáš Pluskal
Tomáš Pluskal
Silvia Radenkovic
Silvia Radenkovic
Stacey Reinke
Stacey Reinke
Fidele Tugizimana
Fidele Tugizimana
Lynn Vanhaecke
Lynn Vanhaecke

Education & Training Committee

This committee will enhance the availability and quality of training and education in metabolomics techniques to the global research community. It will help coordinate activities within the Metabolomics Society and engage and assist established training centers around the world. This will be achieved by:

  • Guiding the implementation of pedagogical best practice in training and education initiatives
  • Contributing educational and training content relevant to metabolomics
  • Enabling the exchange of ideas surrounding formal training and education in metabolomics.
Stacey Reinke
Stacey Reinke Chair
Tee Khim Boon
Tee Khim Boon
President Award winner Dr. Evelina Charidemou
Evelina Charidemou
Warwick "Rick" Dunn
Warwick "Rick" Dunn
Álvaro Fernández Ochoa
Álvaro Fernández Ochoa
Natasa Giallourou
Natasa Giallourou
Fabien Jourdan
Fabien Jourdan
Jessica Lasky Su Honorary Fellowship 2025
Jessica Lasky-Su
Susana Palma
Susana Alejandra Palma Duran
Fidele Tugizimana
Fidele Tugizimana
Candice Z. Ulmer Holland, Ph.D.
Candice Ulmer Holland
Michael Witting
Michael Witting

Early-Career Members Network (EMN) Committee

The EMN aims to provide a forum for metabolomics researchers at the start of their professional career and serve the early-career members of the Metabolomics Society.  Aspirations include, but are not limited to: strengthen communication and collaboration, encourage opportunities and invention, support developmental learning and enjoy professional growth.

Breanna Dixon
Breanna Dixon EMN Chair
Jayden Lee Roberts
Jayden Lee Roberts EMN Secretary
Thomas Dussarrat
Thomas Dussarrat EMN Treasurer
Marina Tonetti Botana
Marina Tonetti Botana
Ambrin Farizah Babu
Ambrin Farizah Babu
Carolina Thomaz dos Santos D'Almeida
Carolina Thomaz dos Santos D'Almeida
Ellen de Paepe
Ellen De Paepe
Renata Garbellini Duft
Renata Garbellini Duft
Maria Llambrich
Maria Llambrich
Shauni Loopmans
Shauni Loopmans
Juan Jose Oropeza Valdez
Juan Jose Oropeza Valdez
Luciana Ribeiro da Silva Lima
Luciana Ribeiro da Silva Lima
Dakshat Trivedi
Dakshat Trivedi
Silvia Radenkovic
Silvia Radenkovic Ex-officio, EMN Chair
Nicholas JW Rattray
Nicholas J.W. Rattray

Membership Committee

The membership committee works to provide member services through the website and newsletters so that members are aware of the activities of the Society and can easily access the services that the Society makes available.

María Eugenia Monge
María Eugenia Monge Chair
Elizabeth Want
Elizabeth Want Co-Chair
Millena Barros Santos
Millena Barros Santos
Domenica Berardi
Domenica Berardi
Koel Chaudhury
Koel Chaudhury
Warwick "Rick" Dunn
Warwick "Rick" Dunn
Thomas Dussarrat
Thomas Dussarrat
Marvin Nathanael Iman
Marvin Nathanael Iman
Caroline Johnson
Caroline Johnson
Susana Palma
Susana Alejandra Palma Duran
Silvia Radenkovic
Silvia Radenkovic
Daniela Ramirez
Daniela Andrea Ramirez
Generic Person Place Holder
Lungile Sitole
Fidele Tugizimana
Fidele Tugizimana
Candice Z. Ulmer Holland, Ph.D.
Candice Ulmer Holland
Lynn Vanhaecke
Lynn Vanhaecke
Aurelia Williams
Aurelia Williams
Laimdota Zizmare
Laimdota Zizmare

Nominations & Election Committee

Warwick "Rick" Dunn
Warwick "Rick" Dunn Co-Chair
Roy Goodacre
Roy Goodacre Co-Chair

Publications Committee

Michael Witting
Michael Witting Chair
Jules Griffin
Jules Griffin
Kati Hanhineva
Kati Hanhineva
Jessica Lasky Su Honorary Fellowship 2025
Jessica Lasky-Su
Matej Oresic
Matej Orešič

Website & Communications Committee

Lynn Vanhaecke
Lynn Vanhaecke Chair
Warwick "Rick" Dunn
Warwick "Rick" Dunn Co-Chair
Roy Goodacre
Roy Goodacre
Laneke Luies
Laneke Luies
Matej Oresic
Matej Orešič
Tomáš Pluskal
Tomáš Pluskal
Silvia Radenkovic
Silvia Radenkovic
Nicholas JW Rattray
Nicholas J.W. Rattray
Michael Witting
Michael Witting
Natasa Giallourou

Natasa Giallourou

PhD Metabolomics Scientist
Metabolon
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  • Chair – Conference Committee
  • Co-Chair – Industry Engagement Task Group
  • Advisor – EMN Committee

Natasa Giallourou, PhD, holds the position of Field Metabolomics Specialist at Metabolon, USA. In her role, she provides scientific support for metabolomics applications in the BioPharma sector. 

Prior to joining Metabolon, Natasa served as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at biobank.cy. Her research projects involved integrating metabolomic data with other omics data in population- based studies, with a focus on identifying biomarkers for complex diseases. She also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London, where she specialized in utilizing metabolic phenotyping to address global health challenges, particularly in the field of public health nutrition. In 2017, she obtained her PhD in Nutritional Metabolomics from the University of Reading. She holds an MSc in Nutrition and Health from Wageningen University and a BSc in Biology from the University of Leeds.

Natasa leads the Conference Committee and co-chairs the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Group of the Society. She has previously served as the Chair of the Early-career Members Network Committee which she now is an advisor to.

Warwick "Rick" Dunn

Warwick “Rick” Dunn

University of Liverpool
UK
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  • Society President – Board of Directors
  • Co-Chair – Website & Communication Committee
  • Co-Chair – Metabolite Identification Task Group
  • Co-Chair – Nominations & Elections Committee

Professor Warwick “Rick” Dunn holds a chair in Analytical and Clinical Metabolomics at the University of Liverpool. He obtained a lectureship in 2011 at the University of Manchester and moved to a lectureship at the University of Birmingham in 2013. He obtained a BSc(Hons) in Chemistry with Analytical Chemistry from the University of Hull and a PhD from the same university focused on developing interfaces to allow online monitoring of chemical process plants using mass spectrometry in association with BP Chemicals. He leads the Analytical and Clinical Metabolomics Group at the University of Liverpool. His research is focused on two areas (1) the development of new analytical tools and methods to enhance data quality, efficiency of metabolite annotation, coverage of detectable metabolites and sample collection strategies and (2) the application of untargeted and targeted metabolomics to the study of metabolism across the life course in humans including pre-birth, ageing, endocrinology, inflammatory and immune diseases and cancers with a focus on precision medicine. He was one of the founding coordinators of the metabolomics quality assurance and quality control consortium (www.mqacc.org). He was a board member of the society from 2010 to 2015 and now from 2022 to 2024. He sits on the Website and Communications committee, conference committee and education and training committee of the Metabolomics Society.  His career goals are to make metabolomics a standard resource applied in biological research and to train the next generation of metabolomics researchers.

María Eugenia Monge

María Eugenia Monge

CIBION – CONICET
Argentina
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  • Society Secretary –Board of Directors
  • Vice-Chair – Lipidomics Task Group
  • Vice-Chair – International Affiliations Task Group
  • Chair – Membership Committee

Dr. María Eugenia Monge is an Independent Researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and works at the Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias (CIBION). In 2006, she obtained her Ph.D. in analytical and physical chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires. Between 2007 and 2014, she held postdoctoral positions in Italy, France, and the USA. In 2014, she was recruited by CONICET to set up a new laboratory in a new research center in Argentina. At CIBION she leads the Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group  and the Mass Spectrometry Facility. Her research group develops MS-based analytical methods using metabolomics and lipidomics approaches with applications in health, food and the environment. As well, her team has contributed with pipelines for preprocessing LC-MS and direct-to-MS data for quality control procedures in untargeted metabolomics workflows.  Since 2014, she has coordinated metabolomics courses for South American students and has participated in strengthening the Latin American scientific community through teaching in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina. Since 2021, she is a founding member of the Latin American Metabolic Profiling Society (LAMPS), and she has contributed to engage LAMPS as an international affiliate of the Metabolomics Society. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Metabolomics Society, where she currently serves as the Secretary, chair of the membership committee, vice-chair of the LipidMet Task Group and vice-chair of the International Affiliations Task Group. Since 2019, she has been a member of the metabolomics quality assurance and quality control consortium (mQACC). In 2022, she was awarded the Metabolomics Society Medal. Since 2025, she is an Executive Editor of Metabolomics.

Roy Goodacre

Roy Goodacre

University of Liverpool
UK

  • Immediate Past President – Board of Directors
  • Co-Chair – Nominations & Elections Committee

Roy Goodacre is Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Liverpool and a co-director of the Centre for Metabolomics Research.  He helped to develop and establish long-term metabolomics which allows fusion of GC-MS and LC-MS data.  These approaches have been used by his team and collaborators to profile health populations and investigate the frailty phenotype during the ageing process.

Trained as a microbiologist in Bristol, UK, he has a fascination with the microbial world.  Thus, in parallel, in order to understand metabolic flux on a single cell level for bacterial community analysis, his group are currently developing high spatial resolution photothermal infrared and Raman-based imaging methods which can be used to generate chemical images of microbial cells.  Please see the wiki for more details.

Roy has published a substantial number of primary papers and reviews in metabolomics and data processing as well as Raman Spectroscopy, and if you like such metrics he has a H-index of over 100.

Outside of metabolomics, Roy is a proud Welshman and avid rugby supporter.  He is fascinated by the lunar landscape of Lanzarote and visits with the family as often as he can, where he loves to walk and visit the many charms that this volcanic island has to offer.

Kati Hanhineva

Kati Hanhineva

University of Turku
Finland
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  • Co-chair – MetFAIR – Reproducible Reporting and Metabolite Annotation Task Group

Kati Hanhineva is professor in food development with special focus on Nordic foods and health effects at the University of Turku, Department of Life Technologies, Food Chemistry and Food Development unit since beginning of 2020. She also holds Research Director position at the School of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition at the University of Eastern Finland, and is affiliated as visiting scientist (Marie Curie MoRE2020 Fellow) at the Division of Food and Nutrition Science, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Hanhineva has completed PhD in biotechnology at the University of Kuopio 2008. During years 2008-2014 she conducted post-doctoral research at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, at the University of Eastern Finland with several research visits to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Since 2014 she has been the principal investigator in food and nutritional metabolomics research group and led and participated in several national and EU-funded research projects including Academy of Finland Researcher Fellowship 2014-2019. Prof Hanhineva is also the founder and Chairperson of the start-up company Afekta Technologies focusing on developing and providing metabolic profiling analytics for industry and academia, especially within food and nutrition related applications.

Jessica Lasky Su Honorary Fellowship 2025

Jessica Lasky-Su

Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
USA

  • Former Society President

Dr. Lasky-Su is an Associate Professor in Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. She earned her doctoral degree in Genetic Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health and has spent the last 20 years focusing on the identification of genetic, genomic, and metabolomic determinants for complex diseases. The accumulation of these efforts has resulted in over 150 peer-reviewed original research manuscripts.

Dr. Lasky-Su’s more recent work has focused on analytic and network approaches to integrate metabolomics and other omics data types with the end goal of making strides towards precision medicine. She is currently the principal investigator and co-investigator on many grants focused on the integration of metabolomics and other omics data types for several diseases including asthma, allergies, preeclampsia, macular degeneration, cancer, and several other complex diseases.

Dr. Lasky-Su currently serves in leadership capacities in a variety of consortiums, including acting as the chairman of the Consortium of METabolomic Studies (COMETS) and a scientific advisor to the “Metabolomics Workbench.” Through these efforts, she has worked to facilitate the utilization of metabolomics in large population-based cohorts.

Her long-term goals are to continue to promote metabolomics research among the epidemiological community through the establishment of solid statistical approaches, the harmonization of data, and the integration of metabolomics or other omics data.

Matej Oresic

Matej Orešič

Örebro University
Sweden

  • Secretary – Lipidomics Task Group
  • Chair – International Affiliations Task Group

Prof. Matej Orešič holds a PhD in biophysics from Cornell University (NY, USA). He is a group leader in systems medicine at the University of Turku, visiting associate professor at the Örebro University, and guest professor in lipids and nutrition at the Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Prof. Orešič is one of the initiators of the Nordic Metabolomics Society and currently its chair of the board. As of 2016, he is a Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Metabolomics Society.

His main research areas are metabolomics applications in biomedical research and systems medicine. He is particularly interested in the identification of disease vulnerabilities associated with different metabolic phenotypes and the underlying mechanisms linking these vulnerabilities with the development of specific disorders or their co-morbidities, with main focus on type 1 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Prof. Orešič also initiated the popular MZmine open source project, leading to popular software for metabolomics data processing.

Tomáš Pluskal

Tomáš Pluskal

IOCB Prague
Czechia

Biography:

I am a Junior Group Leader at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. My laboratory develops new computational and experimental approaches for connecting plant specialized metabolites to their biosynthetic enzymes, and for engineering novel biosynthetic circuits using synthetic biology tools. Presently I am supervising 5 Ph.D. students and 4 postdocs with both computational and experimental expertise. I myself have an interdisciplinary background in computer science (MSc) and molecular biotechnology (Ph.D.). I first started working in metabolomics in 2006 during my PhD in Japan. I am fascinated by the complex chemistry and molecular interactions that we can observe in nature, and in my own lab I am trying to apply diverse approaches to address this complexity. Some people might know me for my work on the MZmine software for mass spectrometry data processing in metabolomics.

Statement of Purpose:

I have been on the MetSoc board for the last two years, and I have mainly been active in the Conference committee and the Website and Communication committee of the Board. I am also proud to be the local chair for the upcoming Metabolomics 2025 conference that will take place in Prague, Czech Republic. I am a big proponent of data sharing, open science, and open software tools. My research interests are focused on the study of non-model organisms in nature, especially plants. Therefore, I would like to advocate for these important aspects in metabolomics. I would also advocate for community-driven projects and collaborations, particularly in the area of data processing and tool development. I plan to revive the Computational Mass Spectrometry task group, which has not been very active in recent years. I would also like to propose to start a new task group focused on metabolomics in non-model organisms, as opposed to the existing Model Organism Metabolomes task group.

Silvia Radenkovic

Silvia Radenkovic

University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht
the Netherlands
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  • Ex-offico, EMN Chair

After earning her PhD at the Metabolomics Expertise Center, KU Leuven Faculty of Medicine, Leuven, Belgium, and Mayo Clinic (visiting), Silvia completed her research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic Department of Clinical Genomics. She was also a part of the undiagnosed disease network (UDN) Mayo Clinic metabolomics core, whose focus was to help find diagnoses for undiagnosed patients using metabolomics. Currently, she is pursuing medical training in laboratory clinical genetics at University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, the Netherlands. Silvia’s research focuses on inborn errors of metabolism, like congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG). Specifically, she is interested in the metabolic rewiring in CDGs focusing on the heart and brain. She holds expertise in laboratory clinical genetics, different omics techniques such as tracer metabolomics, and different disease models (e.g., patient fibroblasts, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), iPSC-derived brain organoids, iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes, zebrafish). Finally, she is passionate about research, mentoring, teaching, and scientific communication and she is part of several initiatives for early career researchers including the EMN Metabolomics Society, Biochemical Society and Females in Mass-Spectrometry.

Stacey Reinke

Stacey Reinke

Edith Cowan University
Australia
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  • Chair – Education & Training Committee

Stacey Reinke is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Statistics and Computational Biology at Edith Cowan University (Perth, Australia). She completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta (Canada) in 2011. Her early research investigated mitochondrial dysfunction in model systems, which expanded to investigating energy metabolism dysregulation in inflammatory diseases in her first postdoctoral position. During this time, Stacey worked closely with David Broadhurst which fostered her interest in design of experiments, statistics, and data science.

Upon receiving a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship in 2014, Stacey relocated to the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) where she worked under the mentorship of Craig Wheelock. Here, she played a key role in developing large-scale clinical metabolomics workflows for as part of the EU-wide UBIOPRED asthma project. In 2016, Stacey was recruited to Perth (Australia) as part of a state-led initiative to enhance clinical metabolomics capacity in Western Australia.

Stacey’s applied research primarily focusses on using metabolomics to investigate the underlying mechanisms of respiratory diseases. As a teaching-research scholar and biochemist turned computational biologist, Stacey is also passionate about improving data literacy for biologists. This is reflected in her methodological papers and her involvement in the Society’s Education & Training Committee.

Fidele Tugizimana

Fidele Tugizimana

University of Johannesburg
& Omnia Group Ltd
South Africa

  • Chair – Society Strategy Task Group

Originally from Rwanda (and currently living in South Africa, SA), Fidele Tugizimana holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry (University of Johannesburg, SA), After the completion of a B.Phil. degree in Philosophy (Urbaniana University, Rome), Fidele Tugizimana enrolled in a B.Sc. Biochemistry-Chemistry degree at the University of Johannesburg; and completed a M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry in 2012. He has received different non-degree purpose training in Advanced Mathematics (UNISA) and in Metabolic modelling, Pathway and Flux analyses (Wageningen University, Netherlands).

Currently, Dr. Fidele Tugizimana is a specialist scientist in the International R&D Management of the Omnia Group Ltd. SA, a research scientist and lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Johannesburg, a scientific consultant in the L.E.A.F. Pharmaceuticals LLC (USA & Rwanda). He applies metabolomics approaches in interrogating cellular biochemistry at global level, specifically in plant-environment interactions, plant biostimulants and in the natural products research. His research interests include metabolomics, host-pathogen interactions, immune response (at molecular level). Furthermore, He is involved in driving the implementation of tools and workflows developed and used in extracting information from metabolomics data, exploring 4IR technologies in metabolomics, the use of machine learning and integrated novel computational frameworks (e.g. GNPS) in mining and interpreting metabolomics spectral data.

Dr. Fidele Tugizimana was involved in setting up the metabolomics group at the University of Johannesburg. He is involved in metabolomics training in SA, and had been involved in the establishment of the Metabolomics South Africa (MSA), an affiliate to the Metabolomics Society since June 2018, and he is currently the president of MSA. Dr. Tugizimana is an author/co-author of several metabolomics papers in leading peer-reviewed international scientific journals; and he serves as a guest editor and a reviewer for scientific journals such as Metabolomics, Frontiers in Plant Science, Metabolites, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

Lynn Vanhaecke

Lynn Vanhaecke

Ghent University
Belgium
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  • Chair – Website & Communication Committee

Lynn Vanhaecke is a Professor at the Laboratory of Integrative Metabolomics (LIMET) at Ghent University, Belgium since 2011 with a 20% appointment at the Institute of Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast, UK since 2018. She holds a Ph.D. in Bioscience Engineering (2008) on gut microbial food metabolism. 

Her team has specific expertise in optimizing and validating high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS)-based metabolomics and lipidomics methods with a focus on gastrointestinal matrices (saliva, stool, in vitro digests) and uses the latter to explore metabolic pathways of food- and gut microbiome-related diseases ranging from food allergies to obesity and its comorbidities. She is also particularly interested in the application of ambient ionization-based HRMS (specifically REIMS) for biofluid and food metabolomics and invented the MetaSamp® biofluid sampler in this context. 

Lynn’s lab has pioneered the field of DNA adductomics in the EU by developing a high-end analytical UHPLC-HRMS platform for untargeted DNA adduct measurements. In recent years, her lab has also gained an interest in the computational part of the metabolomics workflow with dedicated bioinformaticians on staff. Lynn is coordinator of the core facility on small molecule analysis (MSsmall) at Ghent University and a board member of the Nutrigenomics Society (NuGO). 

She was involved in the Horizon 2020 JPI-HDHL Foodball project and two EIT Food projects on food metabolomics and is now a core partner of the first Flemish Exposome project (Flexigut). LIMET’s metabolomics workflows have been sublicensed to Prodigest under the brand name MetaKey® for commercial application.

Tee Khim Boon

Tee Khim Boon

Universiti Malaya and Ministry of Health
Malaysia

Tee Khim Boon is a PhD student in University Malaya, Malaysia. She earned her Master of Science in Clinical Drug Development in Queen Mary, University of London. For the past 10 years, she worked as regulatory pharmacists in National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency, Ministry of Health Malaysia to review clinical trial protocol and bioequivalence dossier, also performed Good Clinical Practice and Bioequivalence inspection locally and internationally. The accumulation efforts on international bioequivalence laboratory inspection and clinical trial inspection resulted in her strong foundation in targeted metabolomics analysis using LCMS. Her recent study is focus on exploration of LCMS-based pharmacometabolomics using combination of targeted and untargeted approach to study Metformin and herbal medicine in phase 1 clinical trial under control environment. She started her PhD project in a randomized, cross-over, pharmacometaboloics study of Andrographis paniculata and Metformin in healthy volunteers under fasting condition in 2019 (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04161404). Her long-term vision is promoting pharmacometabolomics research into phase 1 clinical trial by integrating pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and clinical outcomes using herbal medicine, generic medicines, and biosimilar medicines in the pharmaceutical drug development program.

President Award winner Dr. Evelina Charidemou

Evelina Charidemou

University of Cyprus
Cyprus

Dr Evelina Charidemou is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie studying the interplay between metabolism and epigenetics. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge UK. She specialises in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism. Her research was performed at the Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research (MRC HNR). She holds a bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Biochemistry from Imperial College London, where she was awarded the honorary degree of the Associateship from the Royal College of Science UK (ARCS) for excellence during her studies. Her research focuses on the development of metabolomics, lipidomics and epigenomics tools to investigate aspects of the Metabolic Syndrome, particularly Type II diabetes and Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Specifically, she is using high-performance liquid chromatography and multivariate bioinformatic tools to analyse biological samples and identify biomarkers to understand the underlying mechanism of metabolism in diseases.

In addition, she is an active member of the International Metabolomic Society, the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, the Biochemical Society and she founded the Cyprus Metabolomic Network, of which she is currently the President.

Besides her scientific interests, Dr Charidemou is a former elite athlete of the Cyprus National Track and Field team and enjoys running.

Álvaro Fernández Ochoa

Álvaro Fernández Ochoa

University of Granada
Spain

On November 8, 2019, I finished my doctoral thesis, entitled “Development and application of metabolomic strategies though advanced analytical techniques in biological samples” in the University of Granada (Spain). During my pre-doctoral period, I developed untargeted metabolomic methodologies to apply them in the study of bioactive compounds as well as in the study of systemic autoimmune diseases. As part of my training, I completed a predoctoral stay at Chalmers University (Sweden) in 2018, where I managed to specialize in data processing techniques and statistical analysis of metabolomic data using R language-based programs. From July 2020 to March 2022, I enjoyed a postdoctoral contract at the BIH metabolomics platform (Berlin), actively contributing to the MSTARS project (Multimodal clinical mass spectrometry to target treatment resistance). From April 2022, I am enjoying a postdoctoral contract at the University of Granada, where I am working on projects focused on the study of bioactive compounds from plant matrices through nutritional intervention trials.

Fabien Jourdan

Fabien Jourdan

INRAE – French National Institute for Agricultural Research
France
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  • Immediate Past Secretary – Board of Directors

Fabien Jourdan is a senior research scientist at INRAE (the French National Research Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research) Toulouse, France. He graduated with a PhD in computer science at the University of Montpellier (France) in 2004, working on the premises of social networks, in particular studying their topology. He then shared his time between a software startup company and a research assistant position. In 2005 he was hired by INRAE (Toulouse, France) to develop computational solutions for metabolomics studies (mainly NMR). In 2006 he spent a year as a visiting researcher at the University of Glasgow working with Pr. Barrett on metabolic profiling (HRMS) of Trypanosoma brucei, a parasite and causative agent of sleeping sickness. 

Fabien Jourdan has pioneered bioinformatics methods to study Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks using metabolomics (and other omics data) to predict metabolic impacts associated with genetic or environmental perturbations. His research team is currently applying these approaches to food toxicology and more broadly in studying the link between metabolism and human health (e.g. cancer).

Since 2009, Fabien Jourdan has led the development of MetExplore open access web server which is used by more than 800 users worldwide and maintained and developed by a group of 10 computational biologists. Since 2021, Fabien Jourdan is director of the French National infrastructure for metabolomics and fluxomics, MetaboHub. He was president of the French-speaking Metabolomics and Fluxomics Network (RFMF) from 2015 to 2019. He was elected on the board of the Metabolomics Society in 2019 and has been secretary since 2020.

Susana Palma

Susana Alejandra Palma Duran

CIAD (Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo)
México, Hermosillo

I hold a BSc in Clinical Biochemistry (University of Sonora, Mexico), an MSc in Food Science (CIAD AC, Mexico), and a PhD in Human Nutrition (University of Glasgow, UK). I worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University (USA), investigating biomarkers of sugar intake and, later, as a research associate at the University of Cambridge and then transferred to Imperial College London (UK), investigating metabolic phenotypes associated with obesity. I worked at the Metabolomics Science Technology Platform at The Francis Crick Institute, where I was involved in implementing MS-based metabolomics workflows and developing supercritical fluid-MS methods. I am an associate professor as part of the Pesticides Toxicology Lab in the Food Science Department at CIAD (Hermosillo). My research interest focuses on (a) the metabolic changes associated with chronic and age-related diseases, (b) the effect of dietary components and environmental factors on disease progression, and (c) translating that understanding into solutions for prevention.

Candice Z. Ulmer Holland, Ph.D.

Candice Ulmer Holland

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
USA
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  • Society Treasurer – Board of Directors

Dr. Candice Ulmer Holland, a native of South Carolina, graduated from the College of Charleston in 2012 with a B. S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry. While at the College of Charleston, she investigated the pharmaceutical photodegradation of NSAIDs using ESI-LC-MS/MS under the direction of Dr. Wendy Cory. Dr. Ulmer Holland graduated (May 2016) with a PhD in Chemistry as a McKnight Doctoral Fellow from the University of Florida in Dr. Richard Yost’s research group. For her doctoral work, she applied UHPLC-HRMS techniques to profile the metabolome/lipidome of human cells and tissues to better understand the disease etiology of Type 1 Diabetes and melanoma skin cancer.

Dr. Ulmer Holland’s research comprised experience with various modes of ionization (e.g., MALDI, ESI, APCI, DESI, FlowProbe, and DART). She also incorporated novel stable isotope labeling methodologies such as Isotopic Ratio Outlier Analysis (IROA) to aid in the identification of metabolites as compound identification is still considered a bottleneck in metabolomics studies. In addition to her duties as a graduate student, she was an active researcher with the NIH-funded Southeast Center for Integrated Metabolomics (SECIM).

Dr. Ulmer Holland was a NIST NRC Post-Doctoral Research Associate (June 2016 – August 2017) and was involved with multi-omic UHPLC-HRMS method development, the first lipidomics interlaboratory study, and experiments that monitored the effects of environmental exposures on human/marine life. Dr. Ulmer Holland later formally served as the Acting Chief of the Clinical Reference Laboratory for Cancer, Kidney, and Bone Disease Biomarkers in the Clinical Chemistry Branch of the CDC. Her responsibilities included the accurate measurement of chronic disease biomarkers and the assessment of clinical analytical methods in patient care using novel mass spectrometric methodologies and clinical analyzer platforms.

In her current role as Chemistry Branch Chief for the USDA-FSIS Eastern Laboratory, Dr. Ulmer Holland oversees the chemical residue, food chemistry, and nutritional testing of meat, poultry, egg, and Siluriformes products.

Michael Witting

Michael Witting

Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen
Germany
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  • Chair – Publications Committee

Dr. Michael Witting studied Applied Chemistry with a functional direction into Biochemistry at the Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg and obtained his PhD in 2013 from the Technical University of Munich. Since 2021 he is heading the metabolomics part of the Metabolomics and Proteomics Core of Helmholtz Munich. In 2018 he was named on the Top 40 under 40 Power List of The Anaytical Scientist. He is an active member of the Metabolomics Quality Assurance and Quality Control Consortium (mQACC), the International Lipidomics Society and the Metabolomics Society, where he served as member on the Board of Directors from 2020 to 2022.

Breanna Dixon

Breanna Dixon

University of Manchester
UK
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  • Chair – EMN Committee

After recently submitting her PhD at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, where she applied metabolomics to investigate signatures of antibiotic resistance for improved diagnostics, Breanna is moving into a postdoctoral position focused on biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease and the investigation of novel therapeutic efficacy. Breanna holds an MSc in Forensic and Analytical Science from Kingston University London, United Kingdom, and a BSc in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Neuroscience from the University of Western Australia. She also brings industry experience, having worked in pharmaceutical R&D as an analytical chemist. Her research interests lie at the intersection of clinical metabolomics and translational medicine, with a particular focus on biomarker discovery and therapeutic development. Beyond research, Breanna is passionate about inclusivity and representation in science and is an active member of committees across several organisations dedicated to these aims.

Jayden Lee Roberts

Jayden Lee Roberts

Murdoch University
Australia

  • Secretary – EMN Committee

Jayden completed his PhD in 2025 at the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) – Murdoch University, Western Australia. His research centers on sample miniaturization in metabolic phenotyping, specifically utilizing dried blood spot (DBS) microsamples. Jayden aims to make metabolic profiling more patient-centric and accessible, particularly for underserved populations in remote or resource-limited settings, where traditional blood sampling methods often create significant barriers due to logistical challenges and limited healthcare access. He employs a combination of targeted and untargeted LC-MS (TQ, timsTOF) and proton NMR spectroscopy in his analyses. Jayden also lectures in biochemistry, immunology, and infectious diseases at the University of Notre Dame Australia and is a member of the ECR subcommittee of the Australian and New Zealand Metabolomics Society.

Thomas Dussarrat

Thomas Dussarrat

Bielefeld University
Germany

  • Treasurer – EMN Committee

Thomas earned a PhD in Cotutelle between the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile) and Bordeaux University (Bordeaux, France). During his PhD, he applied a predictive metabolomics approach on multiple species from the Atacama Desert to uncover chemical markers of plant resilience to harsh climates and investigate the ecological and metabolic implications of plant-plant interactions in extreme lands. Currently in postdoc at Bielefeld University in Germany, his research projects combine ecology, metabolomics and machine learning to explore the ecological consequences of intraspecific chemodiversity on plant-herbivore, plant-pollinator and plant-plant interactions. His collaborations with various laboratories in Germany, Chile, France and Switzerland also enable him to study the response and adaptation of plant metabolism to (a)biotic constraints, from metabolites to chemical indices.

Marina Tonetti Botana

Marina Tonetti Botana

Karolinska Institutet
Sweden

Marina is a postdoctoral researcher studying coral reef biology and lipid biochemistry in Craig Wheelock’s lab at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) in collaboration with Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Her research mainly investigates the role of oxylipins, especially octadecanoids, for the regulation and thermal stability of the symbiotic association between corals and their algal symbionts.

Marina holds a BSc and MSc degree in Oceanography and started working with LC-MS techniques for the characterization of marine lipids during her masters. Originally from Brazil, she is passionate about diversity and integration of different research fields, and about promoting international cooperation between research groups where people learn and grow as a team. As part of the EMN, Marina is looking forward to contributing to more diversity and career opportunities in the metabolomics field.

Ambrin Farizah Babu

Ambrin Farizah Babu

University of Eastern Finland
Finland

Ambrin Farizah Babu is a TCSMT Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turku (www.hanhinevalab.com) and a Scientist at Afekta Technologies Ltd. (www.afekta.com). She earned her PhD in Nutrition Science from the University of Eastern Finland as part of the Marie Curie ITN. Her doctoral work applied non-targeted LC-MS metabolomics to explore metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), assessing the impact of lifestyle interventions and novel microbiome therapeutics in both human and murine studies. Her current research builds on this foundation, integrating multi-omics data to investigate how dietary patterns shape microbiome–host interactions in metabolic diseases.

Ambrin brings broad international experience, having conducted research in India, Switzerland, Germany, and Finland, and combines academic expertise with industry experience. Her research interests include non-targeted LC–MS-based metabolomics across diverse biological matrices, multi-omics data integration, and the role of gut microbial metabolism in health and diseases. Beyond research, Ambrin is passionate about mentorship and scientific community building. She co-founded and leads the Finland Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association in Turku, fostering collaboration and professional development among early-career researchers.

Through her work, she seeks to unravel the complex interplay between diet, the gut microbiome, and host metabolism to inform strategies for improved metabolic health.

Carolina Thomaz dos Santos D'Almeida

Carolina Thomaz dos Santos D’Almeida

Center for Innovation in Mass Spectrometry (IMasS-UNIRIO)
Brazil

Carolina is a postdoctoral researcher and associate researcher at the Center for Innovation in Mass Spectrometry (IMasS-UNIRIO), where she integrates metabolomics and in vitro protocols to investigate bioactive compounds in food systems. She holds a PhD in Food Science and Nutrition from UNIRIO (Brazil), with a thesis focused on protein digestibility and the profile and bioaccessibility of phenolic compounds during grain maturation and in sorghum-based products, using foodomics strategies and in silico approaches to explore molecular interactions. Her doctoral work included a research stay at SupAgro Montpellier (France) and an academic mobility period at UNICAMP (Brazil). With over seven years of experience in metabolomics, Carolina has developed expertise in secondary metabolite extraction, UHPLC-MS/MS analysis, and advanced chemometric data interpretation, contributing to innovative approaches for understanding the chemistry of foods. She is also an active member of the French metabolomics and Females in mass spectrometry networks, working to foster international collaboration and promote diversity in science.

Ellen de Paepe

Ellen De Paepe

Ghent University
Belgium

Ellen is a Doctor-Assistant (80%) and Postdoctoral Researcher (20%) at the Laboratory of Integrative Metabolomics (LIMET), Ghent University. Her work focuses on metabolomics in food allergies, overweight and obesity, and exposome research, aiming to identify metabolic pathways that improve our understanding of pediatric diseases, diagnostics, and personalized interventions.

She obtained her Ph.D. in Veterinary Sciences in 2022, using metabolomics and lipidomics to investigate metabolic disturbances underlying cow’s milk allergy in children. Her work combined these approaches with in vivo in murine and in vitro models, as well as microbiome analysis, to explore the link between gut dysbiosis and allergic inflammation.

Currently, Ellen is involved in several large-scale projects, including the first Flemish exposome project FLEXiGUT, the first Flemish Adolescent MEtabolome cohort (FAME), and the ERC-CoG MeMoSA (Metabolomics driven Molecular Source Analysis). 

Her expertise spans (un)targeted metabolomics, lipidomics, microbiome analysis, and biostatistics, with a strong focus on integrating high-resolution mass spectrometry into human health research. She is particularly interested in non-invasive biofluids for metabolomics, offering new opportunities to study metabolic health in children. Through her research, Ellen aims to advance the understanding of pediatric diseases and translate metabolomics findings into clinical applications, ultimately improving early-life metabolic health and disease risk assessment.

Renata Garbellini Duft

Renata Garbellini Duft

Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen
Scotland

Renata is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Her research is funded by the Scottish Government and focuses on developing metabolomics and proteomics tools for food provenance and authenticity. She has an academic background in exercise science and holds an MSc and a PhD from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil, funded by FAPESP fellowship. During her doctoral research, she applied an LC-MS lipidomic approach to investigate the effects of exercise on lipid metabolism in individuals with obesity and type 2 diabetes. In 2021, she joined Imperial College London as a visiting PhD researcher under the supervision of Professor Jules Griffin, who now supervises her postdoctoral research.

Originally trained as a teacher, Renata is committed to education and mentorship, actively mentoring undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students. She also enjoys communicating science in creative and accessible ways, engaging the public through scientific outreach initiatives and events. Her research interests include metabolomics, lipidomics and proteomics, as well as their applications in the fields of nutrition, food safety, exercise science, and metabolic diseases.

Maria Llambrich

Maria Llambrich

Health Research Institute Pere Virgili
Reus, Spain

Maria Llambrich is a bioinformatician and statistician at the Health Research Institute Pere Virgili (Reus, Spain). She earned her PhD in 2025 at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) with the thesis “Innovative tools and strategies for metabolomics data analysis”. With a background in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and an MSc in Omics Data Analysis. Her research focuses on advanced metabolomics applied to colorectal cancer, with expertise in gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and data analysis. Currently, she is transitioning her career toward in vitro diagnostic (IVD) development, with the overarching goal of creating innovative tools that transform omics data into meaningful biomedical insights.

Shauni Loopmans

Shauni Loopmans

Laboratory of Applied Mass Spectrometry at KU Leuven
Belgium

Shauni is a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Applied Mass Spectrometry at KU Leuven, Belgium. She holds a Master’s degree in Bioscience Engineering, and her doctoral work centered on characterizing skeletal cell metabolism during bone development with applications in bone tissue engineering. Her current research investigates metabolic alterations underlying obesity-induced heart failure. Alongside her academic role, she contributes as a consulting scientist at the VIB Metabolomics Core Leuven, where she supports clients in designing (tracer) metabolomics experiments and provides biological interpretation of metabolomics data.

Juan Jose Oropeza Valdez

Juan Jose Oropeza Valdez

Human Systems Biology-INMEGEN
Mexico

Juan José is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Complexity Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he works in the Human Systems Biology Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. Osbaldo Resendis Antonio. He is currently doing research that utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze microbiota and metabolomic data, aiming to unravel the complex interactions between host systems and microbial communities, thereby developing innovative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in personalized medicine.

During his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, his research focused on using metabolomics to identify new biomarkers for the progression of diabetic nephropathy. He also holds a Master’s in Basic Biomedical Sciences from the same institution and a Bachelor’s in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Biology from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. Additionally, he has been working on both targeted and untargeted metabolomic approaches to characterize metabolic alterations in COVID-19 and post-COVID-19.

Luciana Ribeiro da Silva Lima

Luciana Ribeiro da Silva Lima

Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Brazil

Luciana is a final-year PhD student at the Graduate Program in Food Science and Nutrition at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil. Her research focuses on the application of LC-MS-based metabolomics in investigating the impacts of food processing on the specialized metabolites in major and minor cereal grains. She is also working with bioinformatics tools to study the biotransformation of these metabolites during static in vitro digestion on grain samples.

She holds an MSc in Food and Nutrition and a BSc in Nutrition from the same university (UNIRIO) and a PhD mobility at the University of Granada (Spain). She is passionate about research, promoting learning opportunities, and scientific communication to make science an easy and popular subject.

Dakshat Trivedi

Dakshat Trivedi

University of Southampton
UK

Dr Dakshat Trivedi is an aspiring early-career clinical metabolomics researcher at the University of Southampton (UK), where he is a Research Fellow within the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (Nutrition, Lifestyle & Metabolism Theme). Trained in Biological Chemistry (PhD, University of Manchester) with degrees in forensic and biomedical sciences, his expertise spans analytical science, chemometrics, and clinical translation.

His research applies advanced mass spectrometry and vibrational spectroscopies to unravel metabolic mechanisms underlying healthy ageing, chronic diseases, and population health. By integrating targeted and untargeted metabolomics with systems biology and other multi-omics approaches, he drives biomarker discovery, metabolic phenotyping, and precision medicine development. His work exemplifies how analytical chemistry and clinical insight can be bridged to achieve translational impact through equitable and personalised health strategies.

Dakshat also serves as Early Career Researcher Lead for the NIHR Southampton BRC, Chair of the Analytical Science Network (UK), and Communications Lead for the University’s REACH Race, Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage Committee. He is passionate about applying metabolomics and analytical science to translate complex metabolic data into meaningful health insights—to empower personalised care, promote equity, and improve outcomes for people everywhere.

Nicholas JW Rattray

Nicholas J.W. Rattray

University of Strathclyde
UK

Biography:

Nicholas (Nik) is an associate professor of clinical metabolism at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland. He holds a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from the University of Manchester and has subsequently held postdoctoral roles at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, researching ageing and frailty, and at the Yale School of Public Health, researching clinical biobanking and colon cancer metabolism.

Nik runs a productive research team that collectively investigates biomolecular changes throughout life, focusing on dysregulated energy metabolism. The team uses mass spectrometry-based metabolomics, proteomics, and imaging mass spectrometry to identify the biomolecular basis of frailty and to develop and translate novel biomarker panels. He currently holds a Royal Society Industry Fellowship, where his group is developing first-in-class prognostic biomarkers for poor surgical outcomes in older adults. He is also co-director of the Strathclyde Centre for Molecular Bioscience and PI of two Centers for Doctoral Training that support and develop PhD students in omics data fusion and biomarker development. He has over 70 publications in metabolomics research and has obtained over £3M in research funding as lead PI.

He is also a past founding committee member of the Early Career Member’s Network (EMN) of the Metabolomics Society, serving from 2013-2015 and acting as chair in 2015. In this role, he also sat on the Board of Directors and the Conference and Training committees. Currently, he is the chair of the Scottish Metabolomics Network and contributes to the affiliates and education/training committees of the Metabolomics Society.

Statement of Purpose:

My current involvement within the metabolomics community spans the local, national and international levels and I am keen to leverage my expertise, leadership skills, and passion for metabolomics to help guide the society’s strategic initiatives. I am passionate about recognizing and rewarding the essential contributions of technicians in our society. A primary goal I will promote is to engage and encourage underrepresented technical roles to become more involved in the Metabolomics Society by developing the following initiatives:

  • Implement a regular online ‘technical’ sounding-board session within the society. All community members will be able to discuss technical problems and use our collective minds to help solve them. This approach is currently being trialed in Scotland.
  • Network the technician landscape in Metabolomics to assess global demographics of technical support and identify areas (geographical and technical) of need through a position paper.
  • Develop an action plan to enhance visibility, recognition, and career development for technicians within the Metabolomics Society.

I am also passionate about metabolomics education and sit with colleagues on the Metabolomics Society Education and Training Committee where I have recently started as co-lead on the development of a Metabolomics Curriculum. Defining a curriculum involves outlining a structured educational framework that includes the essential knowledge, skills, and competencies students need to acquire. Stakeholder engagement is central to comprehensive course design and alongside committee members I will look develop an inclusive approach surveying feedback from educators, industry professionals, and students, to develop a comprehensive account of metabolomics theory, experimentation and interpretation.

Elzabeth Want

Elizabeth Want

Imperial College London
United Kingdom

  • Co-Chair – Membership Committee

Biography:

I am a Reader in Clinical Mass Spectrometry in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction at Imperial College London. I joined Imperial in 2006 after working as a postdoctoral metabolomics researcher at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Prior to that, I obtained my PhD in Clinical Biochemistry from King’s College London. At Imperial College, I became Lecturer in 2007, Senior Lecturer in 2014 and Head of the Bioanalytical Chemistry Section in 2022. I am Director of the Imperial International Phenome Training Centre, which runs several popular hands-on Metabolomics courses every year.

I have >25 yrs of experience in mass spectrometry and chromatographic techniques and have spent the past 20 years working in the field of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics. My research focuses on the development, optimisation and application of novel liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry (LC-MS) based methodologies for metabolomics. I aim to improve molecular assays for clinical studies, leading to deeper understanding of diseases, improved healthcare and better patient outcomes. I have applied these assays to the analysis of various biological samples, in biomedical areas including cardiovascular disease, glioblastoma, burn injury and pregnancy.

I also have a strong interest in teaching and training. I have been the Deputy Director of the MRes in Biomedical Research at Imperial College since 2018. I have mentored multiple BSc, Master’s, Doctoral students and Postdoctoral students. I have also enjoyed designing and giving metabolomics courses at International Conferences (ASMS, MSACL). I am active in the International MSACL committee and am Chair of the London Metabolomics Network.

Officer Mission Statement:

I am very active in the Metabolomics Community, and enthusiastic about training the next generation of researchers. I am already part of the Metabolomics Society Education and Training Committee and through the MAP-UK consortium have been involved in Metabolomics training and outreach over the past few years. One of my goals as Director would be to continue the important work of the Metabolomics Society in encouraging Metabolomics early career researchers. I would leverage my Industry connections to further sponsor travel grants and prizes for ECRs to attend conferences and encourage them to participate in ECR activities.

I enjoy conference organisation, having been involved in planning both MSACL (Mass Spectrometry: Advances in the Clinical Laboratory) EU and US conferences, and the UK-based Reid Bioanalytical Forum and London Metabolomics Network Meetings. This year I have co-organised the Frontiers in Metabolomics Conference in Colorado, USA which brought together many Metabolomics researchers from across the world. I would therefore be keen to play an active part in the Conference Committee.

As part of the Metabolomics and mass spectrometry communities for many years, I would hope to use my expertise in terms of following the Mission of the Metabolomics Society, e.g. promoting the field of metabolomics through national and international talks and chairing conference sessions. Through the Education and Training Committee I will help with the creation of new outreach activities and workshops to promote metabolomics.

Due to my research interests, I would also be happy to be on several Task Groups, such as Lipidomics, Metabolite Identification and Precision Medicine.

In summary, if elected as Secretary of the Metabolomics Society, I believe I can bring enthusiasm and experience to the role.

Millena Barros Santos

Millena Barros Santos

INRAE Avignon
France
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  • Co-Chair – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Group
  • Treasurer – EMN Committee

Millena Barros Santos is a junior research scientist in the UMR SQPOV – Safety and Quality of Products of Plant Origin at INRAE (the French National Research Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research) in Avignon, France. Her research projects involve applying metabolomics to explore the evolution of phytoconstituents during the production-storage-processing-consumption-digestion continuum, hierarchising the reactivity factors and key stages in the transformation and digestion of fruits and vegetables and predicting product nutritional quality.

She holds a Ph.D. in Food and Nutrition (Food Science Area), from the Food and Nutrition Graduate Program (PPGAN) at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) in Brazil, supported by a CAPES scholarship. During her thesis, she had the opportunity to conduct untargeted metabolomic analyses of various food matrices through collaborations with Brazilian and international laboratories and to follow an internship with a Brazilian scholarship (FAPERJ) at INRAE, Institut SupAgro, and CIRAD in Montpellier, France. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Bordeaux Metabolome-MetaboHUB (INRAE Bordeaux Nouvelle-Aquitaine) in France, applying mass spectrometry-based metabolomics to study large plant cohorts and elucidate associations between the metabolome and agronomical traits through predictive metabolomics.

Millena is co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Task Group of the Society, and she is on the Committee of the Portal Metabolômica Brasil. She has previously served on the Early-career Members Network (EMN) Committee and treasurer 2022-2024.

Domenica Berardi

Domenica Berardi

Yale University
USA
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  • Co-Chair – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Group

Domenica Berardi is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Public Health at Yale University (USA) where she is using metabolomics to simultaneously analyze the effects of exposures, their changes to the endogenous metabolome and biological impact for cancer development and progression. She holds a PhD in Pharmacy and Biomedical Science from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) where her research focused on the investigation of Aging and the assessment of the metabolic changes associated with its physiological and degenerative processes. Her interest in metabolomics started during her master’s degree at the University of Pavia (Italy) where she studied the effect of Glucose and Glutamine metabolism for Breast Cancer cells proliferation and oncogene expression. This research was further explored at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer of Edinburgh (UK) through the application of LC-MS/MS technologies. In 2019 she became a member of the Metabolomics Society, which gave her the opportunity to broaden her scientific and networking skills in the field of metabolomics. She joined the EMN society with the idea of transmitting the opportunities received to the younger scientists, and supporting the scientific progression in the field of metabolomics.

Koel Chaudhury

Koel Chaudhury

Indian Institute Of Technology Kharagpur
India

Marvin Nathanael Iman

Marvin Nathanael Iman

Pharma Foods International Co., Ltd.
Japan

Marvin is a research associate at Osaka University, Japan. His research explores the multidisciplinary bridging of food metabolomics and molecular epidemiology to better understand foods’ health benefits.

Caroline Johnson

Caroline Johnson

Yale School of Public Health
USA

Dr. Caroline Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Metabolomics in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH). In 2009, she graduated from Imperial College London with a PhD in Analytical Chemistry under the mentorship of Profs. Jeremy Nicholson, John Lindon and Ian Wilson, where she studied the role of reactive drug metabolites in relation to toxicity. She then held a postdoctoral appointment at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, in Dr. Frank Gonzalez’s lab and examined the biological effects of ionizing radiation and dietary exposures on human health using metabolomics. From 2012-2016 she directed the cancer metabolism efforts at the Scripps Research Center for Metabolomics with Prof. Gary Siuzdak’s lab where she was involved in the optimization of XCMS Online and METLIN technologies.

Since joining YSPH in 2016, her lab’s primary focus has been to develop metabolomics for epidemiologic and population-level analysis. The lab is also using mass spectrometry imaging approaches to better understand tissue metabolite heterogeneity and the link between metabolites and cellular pathology. The lab is currently investigating the relationship between genetic and environmental influences in women with colon cancer, and the examination of early-life exposures in pregnancy outcomes. Dr. Johnson also serves on the editorial boards for Metabolites, Toxicological Sciences and Frontiers in Immunology and Nutrition.

Daniela Ramirez

Daniela Andrea Ramirez

CONICET-UNCuyo
Argentina

Dr. Daniela Ramirez is a post-doc researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), currently developing her work at the Instituto de Biología Agrícola de Mendoza (IBAM). She is also a teaching assistant working in the Analytical Chemistry Department of the Agronomic Faculty of the Cuyo National University (UNCuyo – Mendoza, Argentina). She has a PhD in Science and Technology, specialized in functional foods’ study, chemometrics, including QSAR studies (quantitative structure-activity relationship), and analytical techniques development. Current research interests are focused on showing metabolomics studies’ versatility in terms of food science and nutrition, studying phytochemicals not only as bioactive compounds effective in nutraceutical intervention studies, but also as authenticity markers to define quality and safety attributes in functional horticultural products, using LC-MS/MS techniques.

Since 2023, she has been an active member of the Early Career Members Network (EMN) from the Metabolomics Society, serving in different task groups (Webinar TG, Conference), and she is the TG leader of the Networking and Recruitment TG. She is also associated with other MS and metabolomics-related societies and affiliations, including LAMPS and SAEM (Argentina).

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Lungile Sitole

Dr. Lungile Sitole is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences in the Division of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Cape Town. She holds both a Bachelors (Magna Cum Laude) and Master’s (Cum Laude) degree in Organic Chemistry from Jackson State University (MS, USA) as well as a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Pretoria and a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Johannesburg. She is a DST Women in Science alumni who was featured in the Mail & Guardian Top 200 young South Africans (2015). She is also a Golden Key International Honours Society member as well as an ambassador for South Africa’s 2017 National Development Plan (NDP 2030). Sitole is an alumnus of both the UJ Women’s Leadership Development Programme (UJWLDP) as well as the Women in Research Leadership. Dr. Sitole’s current research focus is on the application of metabolomics techniques for cancer prognostic purposes, specifically screening of treatment-response markers as well as discovery of drug targets.

Aurelia Williams

Aurelia Williams

North-West University
South Africa

Aurelia A. Williams is an Associate Professor in the Biochemistry Department at North-West University (NWU), South Africa, and a researcher in the Biomedical and Molecular Metabolism Research Group (BioMMet). Her research focuses on elucidating the interplay between metabolism, immune responses, and genetic factors in the pathogenesis of infectious and acquired diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS and its associated comorbidities.

Dr. Williams earned her MSc from the University of Johannesburg and her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Pretoria. She further expanded her expertise in molecular and metabolic research through postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco.

An active leader in South Africa’s scientific community, Dr. Williams is the Deputy President of Metabolomics South Africa (MSA), which she co-founded to promote metabolomics research and collaboration. She chairs MSA’s Training and Conference Committee and previously served as Deputy Secretary (2018–2020). Dr. Williams is also a facilitator for the Technological Higher Education Network South Africa (THENSA) under the Department of Science and Innovation, and a member of several scientific societies. 

Committed to mentorship, equity, and community impact, Dr. Williams supports the next generation of scientists through student supervision, outreach initiatives, and advocacy for women in science. She serves as a reviewer and examiner for journals, institutions, and funding bodies. Dr. Williams contributes to ethical health research through her service on Aurum’s Community Advisory Board, ensuring that research reflects community values and context. 

Internationally recognized for her work, Dr. Williams has published widely, presented at numerous conferences, and received several accolades. Her work bridges laboratory science and real-world impact—advancing health research while fostering inclusive scientific progress across Africa and beyond.

Laimdota Zizmare

Laimdota Zizmare

Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Germany

Dr. Laimdota Zizmare obtained her PhD in Pharmacy, Metabolomics & Systems Medicine in 2023 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen and University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany. Her scientific interests include pre-clinical and clinical immuno-oncology, metabolic diseases, neurological conditions, and public health policy initiatives. Her technical expertise comprises NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and MALDI imaging MS applications for metabolomics and multi-omics research, biomarker discovery and validation.

Laimdota previously served as the early-career member network (EMN) committee member and treasurer 2021-2023. She holds a Master of Science in Medicinal Chemistry and Physical Sciences for Health from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Riga Technical University, Latvia, highlighting her passion for STEM and international collaboration.

Jules Griffin

Jules Griffin

The Rowett Institute &
University of Aberdeen
UK

Dr. Griffin studied chemistry at Magdalen College, Oxford, and went on to do postgraduate research in biochemistry, gaining his DPhil from Oxford in 1999 after studying in the laboratory of Professor George Radda.

Following this he held Postdoctoral posts as a Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital Fellow in Radiology, as a research associate at Imperial College London and, later, as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge (UK). He was formally appointed as a University Lecturer (the US equivalent to an associate professor) at Cambridge University in 2007.

Dr. Griffin’s group uses a range of analytical techniques including NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry (they have access to a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer, a Thermo LTQ ion trap, a Waters QTOF Ultima, a Waters Quattro Premiere triple quadrupole LCMS and two GC-MS), to follow metabolism in the brain to look at a range of disease processes. The majority of his work has centered on mouse models of disease including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses.

More recently, Dr. Griffin’s group has been using a combination of animal models (mouse, rat and C.elegans) to understand the metabolic consequences of “metabolic syndrome” including type II diabetes, obesity, fatty liver disease and dyslipidaemia. His studies have attempted to cross-correlate metabolomic data with proteomics and transcriptomics to create a “systems biology” description of the consequences of pathology and genetic modulation related to the metabolic syndrome.

Laneke Luies

Laneke Luies

Biomedical Molecular and Metabolism Research Group (BioMMet), South Africa