Dr Christian Klampfl
(Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria)

Christian W. Klampfl obtained his Ph.D. from University of Innsbruck/Austria in 1993. Since 1992 he is holding a position at the institute of Analytical Chemistry of Johannes-Kepler University in Linz first as an assistant-, since 2001 as an associate professor. His main interest is the hyphenation of separation techniques (mainly capillary electrophoresis) with mass spectrometry. Since 2008 he has been the editor of six Special Issues of Electrophoresis and Journal of Chromatography A devoted to this topic. Recently he developed increased interest in ambient ionization mass spectrometry, particularly for DART, DESI and direct ionization techniques such as direct MS from thin-layer chromatography plates. He has published more than 100 research papers and seven book chapters, covering a wide field of analytical chemistry applications - from the analysis of pharmaceuticals and food related materials to environmental and plant related topics and finally the characterization of technical products such as synthetic polymers. Currently Prof. Klampfl is acting as deputy head of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and as vice-head of the academic senate of Johannes Kepler University Linz.