Professor Oliver J. Schmitz

WELCOME

About me

I am an analytical chemist and since 2013 a full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the chair of the Applied Analytical Chemistry.

My main research areas are separation science, with a particular focus on

the analysis of complex samples, such as metabolome and lipidome,
the development of ion sources,
the use and optimization of multidimensional LC and GC,
ion mobility-mass spectrometry, and
Origin-of-Life.

Since 2013 I am a consultant for various international companies and organizing – together with international partners – analytica conferences in China (until 2024), India (until 2017) the USA and Vietnam.

In 2018 I have founded the Teaching and Research Center for Separation (TRC) together with Agilent Technologies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

In 2009 I co-founded the company iGenTraX UG, which develops new ion sources for mass spectrometers.

Curriculum Vitae

since 2025: Chairman of the analytica conferences in the USA
since 2024: Member of the permanent scientific committee of the International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC)
2023: Chairman of the 51th HPLC in Duesseldorf, Germany (together with Prof. Michael Lämmerhofer)
since 2023: Editorial Advisory Board member in LCGC International
since 2021: Editorial Board member in Talanta open
2020: Chairman of the 6th International Ion Mobility - Mass Spectrometry Workshop in Essen, Germany
since 2020: Editorial Advisory Board member of Trends in Analytical Chemistry (TrAC)
since 2019: Editorial Board member of Chinese Journal of Chromatography
2019: Founder of the Teaching and Research Center for Separation (TRC) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, which belongs to Agilent's global network of world-class Centers of Excellence
since 2018: International Advisory Board Member of Vietnam Journal of Chemistry
since 2017: Associate Editor in Chief of the Journal of Analysis and Testing
2016 - 2024: Chairman of the analytica conferences in China
2016 - 2020: Organisation of the PhD-seminar on Separation Science of the Section for Analytical Chemistry of the GDCh
2016 - 2020: Deputy Chairman of the Working Group Separation Science of the Section for Analytical Chemistry of the GDCh
since 2015: Chairman of the analytica conferences in Vietnam
2014 - 2023: Member of the DAAD selection committee
since 2014: Editorial Board member of Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis
2014 - 2017: Chairman of the analytica conferences in India
2013: Fresenius Lecturer
March 2013: Gerhard-Hesse-Prize
since 2013: Chairman of the analytica conferences in China and Vietnam
since 2013: Consultant of the fair analytica Munich
since 09/2012: Professor and Chair of Applied Analytical Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen
since 2012: Advisory Board member of Chromatographia
March 2010: Chair of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal
June 2009: Cofounder of the company iGenTraX UG
May 2009: Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal
2004: Habilitation (University of Wuppertal)
since 2001: Independent research
1999 - 2000: Postdoctoral researcher at the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg (DKFZ)
1998: Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich (LMU)
1997: Dr. rer. nat. in Analytical Chemistry (Prof. Gäb)
1989 - 1994: Undergraduate studies at the University of Wuppertal