Ute Roessner
Dr. Roessner obtained her PhD in Biochemistry at the MPI for Molecular Plant Physiology in Germany, where she developed novel GC-MS methods to analyse metabolites in plants. The field of metabolomics emerged together with the application of sophisticated data mining, and it is today an important tool in biological sciences, systems biology and biomarker discovery. In 2003, Dr. Roessner moved to Australia where she established a GC-MS and LC-MS based metabolomics platform at the University of Melbourne, node of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics. Since 2007, Dr. Roessner has also been involved in the setup of Metabolomics Australia (MA), an Australian federal government investment, through Bioplatforms Australia Ltd. and currently leads the MA node at the University of Melbourne.