Dr. Michael Witting studies applied chemistry, with a functional direction into biochemistry at the Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg, Germany. He obtained his PhD in analytical chemistry from the Technical University of Munich in 2013 and performed his habilitation at the same university. Since 2021 he heads the metabolomics team of the Metabolomics and Proteomics Core Facility at Helmholtz Munich. His research focuses on the development of novel analytical approaches for LC-MS-based metabolomics and lipidomics and the tools for the improved identification of metabolites and lipids. From 2020 to 2025 he served on the Board of Directors of the Metabolomics Society.