Prof. Andrei Timerbaev is currently affiliated with the University of Vienna, Austria. He graduated from Moscow State University and obtained his PhD and D.Sc. at the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (1985) and Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology (Doctor of Chemistry, 1991), respectively. Professor Timerbaev is a member of a drafting committee for an international journal, Electrophoresis, and the Editorial Board of Molecules (Analytical Chemistry section). His main areas of interest are analytical chemistry, coordination chemistry, chromatography and other separation-related techniques, methodological aspects of ICP-MS and its application in nanomedicine, metallodrug development, and biospeciation analysis.