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IMSF AWARDS

IMSF AWARDS

Thomson Medal

“For outstanding achievements in and distinguished service to international mass spectrometry”.

PROFESSOR JENNIFER BRODBELT

The University Of Texas In Austin
USA

PROFESSOR RICK YOST

University of Florida
USA

Curt Brunnée Award

“For outstanding contributions to the development of instrumentation for mass spectrometry by a person under the age of 45 at the time of the award”

DR JENS SOLTWISCH

University of Münster
Germany

Jochen Franzen Award

“For outstanding contributions to innovations in structural, spatial and/or separation analysis with mass spectrometry”.

DR LJILJANA PAŠA-TOLIĆ

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
USA

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PROFESSOR JENNIFER BRODBELT

The University Of Texas In Austin
USA

Dr. Jenny Brodbelt is the Rowland Pettit Centennial Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin and is also serving as Chairperson. She earned her B.S. degree in chemistry at the University of Virginia and her doctorate in chemistry at Purdue University under the supervision of Prof. Graham Cooks. After a post-doctoral position at the University of California at Santa Barbara with Prof. Mike Bowers, she began her academic career at the University of Texas. Her research interests focus on the development and application of ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) mass spectrometry for characterization of the structures and modifications of biological molecules, including peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, oligosaccharides, and lipids. She served as the Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas for over 20 years and became Chairperson in 2019. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, and she served as Secretary, Vice President of Programs and President of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Her group has published over 450 scientific papers, many describing the implementation of photodissociation on ion trapping mass spectrometers, evaluating fragmentation patterns of many types of biomolecules, and applying UVPD to a variety of bioanalytical problems. 

PROFESSOR RICK YOST

University of Florida
USA

Rick is University Professor Emeritus and past Head of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Florida.  He is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of analytical chemistry, particularly tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS).  He is perhaps best known as the co-inventor (along with Chris Enke and Jim Morrison) of the triple quadrupole mass spectrometer.  He received his BS degree in Chemistry in 1974 from University of Arizona and his PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry in 1979 from Michigan State University.

Rick’s professional activities have focused on research and teaching in analytical mass spectrometry and metabolomics, with a unique balance between instrumentation development, fundamental studies, and applications in areas such as clinical, biomedical, pharmaceutical, environmental, petrochemical, and forensic chemistry.  Dr. Yost has supervised the research of 120 graduate students, graduating over 100 PhDs from his group.  He has served as PI or Co-PI on grants totaling over $65M of funding.  Research in the group has led to over 250 publications and 25 patents. 

Rick directed the Southeast Center for Integrated Metabolomics (SECIM) as well as NIH’s nationwide Metabolomics Consortium.  His research has been recognized with the 1993 ASMS John Fenn Award for Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry, the 2018 MSACL Award for Distinguished Contribution to Clinical Mass Spectrometry, the 2021 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, and the 2023 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies from ABRF.  He was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2021.  He recently completed serving as President of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

DR JENS SOLTWISCH

University of Münster
Germany

Jens Soltwisch is a research associate in the Institute of Hygiene at the University of Münster in Germany. He studied physics in Münster and after his finishing his degree in 2008 continued at the same University to obtain his PhD in 2012. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship at the AMOLF institute in Amsterdam in 2013, he returned to his alma mater and completed his habilitation there in 2022.

He is currently working in the group “Biomedical Mass Spectrometry” in the Institute of Hygiene as a research associate. Since his undergraduate studies, he has been involved in fundamental research and method development centering on MALDI mass spectrometry. After investigating the influence of laser parameters on the MALDI-process, in recent years his attention has shifted towards method development in MALDI-MSI imaging as well as post-ionization modalities. He was the driving force behind the development of MALDI-2 and its early implementation for MALDI-MSI. He has contributed to over 50 publications on MALDI-MS and MALDI-MSI and presented his work at numerous international congresses. He was honored with a number of awards including the Mattauch-Herzog-Prize of the German Society for Mass Spectrometry in 2021.

DR LJILJANA PAŠA-TOLIĆ

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
USA

Ljiljana (Lili) Paša-Tolić received her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, was a postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and visiting scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Today she is a Laboratory Fellow and Lead Scientist at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) located at PNNL. She is known for her pioneering contributions to mass spectrometry, high-throughput, and top-down proteomics, including the development of transformative instrumentation and methods for biological and environmental research. Dr. Paša-Tolić has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications; presented at more than 150 seminars, conferences, and workshops; and served at numerous editorial and advisory committees. She was a founding organizer to the worldwide Consortium for Top-Down Proteomics (CTDP), a nonprofit corporation that works toward the goal of accelerating “the comprehensive analysis of intact proteins and their complexes” and is currently serving on the CTDP Board. She has mentored more than 50 students and post-doctoral fellows, and organized several conferences, workshops, symposia, and schools focused on various aspects of analytical chemistry, omics, and mass spectrometry. In 2019 and 2021, she was selected for the Analytical Scientist Top 100 Power List, recognizing her pioneering contributions to high resolution mass spectrometry for applications ranging from environmental ecology to medicine. In 2021, she was selected to join the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) and is currently serving on the WSAS Board.