Gunda Koellensperger was appointed as a full professor for Analytical Chemistry by the University of Vienna in 2013. Following her studies at the Vienna University of Technology, she did her tenure at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. In 2011 she was a guest professor at the Humboldt University, Berlin. From 2010 -2014 she was a key researcher of the Austrian Centre for Industrial Biotechnology. Since 2020 she is head of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry. She is vice president of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry, board member of the Austrian Society for Proteomics and Metabolomics and vice-chair of the Vienna Metabolomics Center (VIME). She is the author of more than 160 papers and book chapters. Her current research covers methods in metabolomics/lipidomics, biotechnological production of standards for mass spectrometry, and metallomics.