Xin Ma is a post-doctoral fellow who has been working in Professor Facundo Fernández’s lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology since February 2021, after obtaining his Ph.D. from Purdue University under the guidance of Professor Hilkka Kenttämaa in December 2020. His current research involves spatially resolved lipidomic and glycomic profiling of ovarian cancers using ultra-high resolution FTICR mass spectrometry and developing new mass spectrometry imaging platforms for lipid identification. In Professor Kenttämaa’s lab, he studied the fundamental aspects and applications of gas-phase ion-molecule reactions using ion trap mass spectrometry, including gas-phase reactivity studies of organic polyradicals, C–H bond activations using metal-free reagents, and development of functional-group-selective ion-molecule reactions for metabolite structural elucidation and drug impurity identification.