Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kessler currently serves as a professor of Biochemistry and Life Science Mass Spectrometry at the Target Discovery Institute (TDI), Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zurich, Switzerland in biochemistry in 1992 and received his PhD in immunology at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Lausanne in 1998. Next, he joined the laboratory of Hidde L. Ploegh at the Pathology Department at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, to study the role of proteolysis in antigen processing and presentation. After three years, he established a research platform in proteomics at Harvard Medical School. Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kessler's laboratory is focused on ubiquitin and protease biology with specialisations in mass spectrometry, proteomics, and recently in metabolomics. Expertise in his laboratory is also used to understand disease processes in translational research.