7th International Mass Spectrometry School (IMSS) 2025

The 7th International Mass Spectrometry School (IMSS 2025) is a six day school aimed to give a high level education in fundamentals, advances, instrumentation, and applications of mass spectrometry to graduate, PhD and post-doc students, and others working in industries and in different institutions in the areas of chemistry, biosciences, food, environment, and medicine.

Coming to Austria for the forst time of this flagship IMSF activity offers a unique opportunity to learn about activites in other countries while advancing your MS knowledge. Education is at the heart of the professional development the IMSF aims to stimulate. Come to Voraus, Austria,  to learn from and connect with mass spectrometrists across the globe.
The exciting program of lectures and workshops covers the breadth of mass spectrometry, from fundamentals to applications. Interlaced with interactive hands-on sessions and outstanding networking opportunities for all delegates, students and tutors alike it is one of the highlights of the 2025 mass spectrometry calendar.

Ron M.A. Heeren

Registration

Register for IMSS 2025

Registration fees

• Undergraduates, Ph.D.: €470,00
• PostDoc Students: €530,00
• Others (industry): €740,00

It includes:

• Participation to the school
• Main costs hotel (register as soon as possible to secure a room)
• Copy of the slides presented at the lessons
• Certificate of attendance
• Buffet lunches (Mon-Thu), Social dinner, coffee breaks
• Excursion

Abstract Submission

Submit your Abstract HERE

Program Outline

The school is organised into:

• Tutorial lectures in which an international team of lecturers will present theory, fundamentals, instrumentation and applications of mass spectrometry;
• Poster presentations: Participants are encouraged to present a poster on their own research activity. Posters will be presented throughout the duration of the school to allow participants to ask for details and interact with the presenters;
• Selected short presentations: Selected posters will be presented as short oral presentations;
• Exercises with active participation of the students in solving some tasks related to the topics presented in the talks;
• Social programme with welcome party; excursion in the surrounding area and to a wine tavern;
• Students leave their mark!

Draft Program

Sunday

• Registration
• Opening
• Welcome Session

Monday

• Fundamentals 
  • Instrumentation, definitions, resolution, accurate mass measurements, isotopic measurements
• Ionization techniques and mechanisms of ion production 
  • Electron ionization (EI), chemical ionization (CI), incl. fragmentation processes and energetics, Atomic ionization methods (GD, ICP, TI)
  • Atmospheric pressure ionization (ESI, APCI, APPI)
  • Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI)
  • Ambient mass spectrometry
• Poster & Short Oral Presentations for Posters

Tuesday

• Mass Analyzers
  • Separation of ions in space: quadrupole, time of flight, sectors
  • Separation of ions in time: ion traps, FT-ICR, Orbitrap
• Hybrid Instrumentation
• Miniaturization
• Round Table Discussion on Single Cell Mass Spectrometry
• Enjoy Life - Social Activity in the Afternoon

Wednesday

• Tandem Mass Spectrometry
• Coupling Techniques
  • LC-MS, GC-MS, CE-MS
• Quantitative Mass Spectrometry
• Mass Spectrometry Imaging - SIMS, MALDI, LA-ICP
• Applications in Life Sciences - Proteomics, Metabolomics, Lipidomics, Glycomics
• Joint Dinner at a Typical Styrian Buschenschank

Thursday

• Mass Spectrometry Informatics
  • from target analysis to identification of unknowns and characterization of small molecules, Bioinformatics in the Omics field
• Poster Session
• MS Hackathon

Friday

• New Trends in Single Cell Analysis
• Closing Ceremony

Presenters

• Gianluca Giorgi (University of Siena, Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy)
• Daniel Kolarich (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, School of Environment and Science, Chemistry and Forensic Science)
• Peter O'Connor (The University of Warwick, Department of Chemistry)
• Ernst Pittenauer (TU Wien, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics)
• Jens Soltwisch (University Münster, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Biomedical Mass Spectrometry)