Matthias Mann


Matthias Mann is a scientist in the area of mass spectrometry and proteomics.

Early life and education

Born in Germany he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 at Yale University where he worked in the group of John Fenn, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Career

After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense Mann became group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. Later he went back to Odense as a professor of bioinformatics. Since 2005 he has been a director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich. In addition, he became a principal investigator at the newly founded "Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research" in Copenhagen.
From his research group in Munich originated in 2016 PreOmics – a company commercializing sample prep sets, and EVOSEP – a company commercializing protein analysis equipment.
His work has impact in various fields of mass spectrometry-based proteomics:

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