Dietrich A. Volmer is a Full Professor and Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry at Humboldt University Berlin. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Hannover in 1994, under the supervision of Karsten Levsen. After conducting postdoctoral research as an ORISE Fellow at the National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson, AR/USA, he joined the National Research Council's Institute for Marine Biosciences in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1996 as a research associate. He then spent a few years as Head of the Analytical Research Facility at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany, and subsequently returned to Canada in 2001 as Senior Research Officer and Group Leader Biological Mass Spectrometry at the Institute for Marine Biosciences in Halifax. In 2007, he accepted a position as Head of the Department of Bioanalytical Sciences of the Medical Research Council's Human Nutrition Research Institute in Cambridge, UK. He became Krupp Professor and Chair in Analytical Chemistry, and a Director of the Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, in 2010, until he moved to his current position in Berlin in 2018. Dietrich Volmer has been Editor of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry since 2004 and has recently been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analytical Science Advances. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and currently serves as Vice President of the German Society for Mass Spectrometry.
Caroline S. Stokes is an Associate Professor at Food and Health Research Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. She earned a Bachelor's degree at Southampton Solent University in 1999, a Master's at the University of Sheffield in 2003, a Master's at King's College London in 2010, and a Doctorate at Saarland University in 2014. She holds membership in the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Her research keywords include vitamin D, nutrition, and diet modifications.
