Prof. Dr. Stefan Kalkhof is the Director of the Institute for Bioanalysis at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and the Deputy Head of the Department of Preclinical Development and Validation at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology. He completed his degree in Chemistry (2004) and PhD in Analytical Chemistry (2008) from the University of Leipzig. He was the project head of the Mass Spectrometry working group at the Department of Proteomics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research from 2008 to 2016. He is also a member of the German Society for Mass Spectrometry and the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. His research interests include proteomics, mass spectroscopy, protein analysis, structural proteomics, biomaterials, and ecotoxicology.