Prof. Dr. Gérard Hopfgartner

Gérard Hopfgartner studied chemistry at the University of Geneva and received his Ph.D. degree in 1991 in the field of organic geochemistry and mass spectrometry. After a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. J. Henion at Cornell University, focusing LC-MS/MS, he joined the DMPK department of F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel. as the head of the LC-MS group and later, as a scientific expert. In 2002, he moved back to the University of Geneva as full Professor for analytical sciences and mass spectrometry until 2025. He is currently Emeritus Professor at UniGe and his main scientific interests remain separation sciences hyphenated to multimodal mass spectrometry for identifying molecules in large set of biological samples.