Robert Hettich leads the Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Group of the Biosciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is a joint faculty member in the Microbiology Department at the University of Tennessee. With more than 38 years of experience in biological mass spectrometry, focused on high performance mass spectrometry, he has written more than 340 publications and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Mass Spectrometry Reviews, BMC Genomics, and Journal of Integrated Omics.