Uwe Karst holds the Chair of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Münster, Germany, since 2005. Previously, he was appointed as Chair of Chemical Analysis at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, from 2001 until 2005. He is author of more than 350 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Uwe´s research interests cover different aspects of mass spectrometry and hyphenated techniques, ranging from electrochemistry/mass spectrometry for the simulation of the oxidativce metabolism of drugs to metal speciation analysis and elemental as well as molecular mass spectrometric bioimaging.