J. Michael Ramsey Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Scientific Founder, Caliper Life Sciences; Scientific Founder, 908 Devices Inc.; Scientific Founder, Genturi Inc. Alexander Makarov Director, Global Research Life Science Mass Spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Germany. Zoltan Takats Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK. Richard Smith Battelle Fellow and Chief Scientist, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Washington, USA. Chris Pohl Vice President, Chromatography Chemistry, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA. Purnendu (Sandy) Dasgupta Hamish Small Chair in Ion Analysis, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Bernd Bodenmiller Assistant Professor for Quantitative Biology, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Klaus Witt Senior Technology Lead, R&D, Liquid Phase Separations Business, Agilent Technologies, Germany. Shane Tichy R&D LC/MS Single and Triple Quadrupole Manager, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, USA. R. Graham Cooks Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor, Chemistry, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.