CV
In 2009 Oliver J. Schmitz got a full professor in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal (BUW). Between 2010 and 2012 he was the chair of the Analytical Chemistry department at BUW. Since 2013 Schmitz has been a full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and is the chair of the Institute of Applied Analytical Chemistry.
2009 he co-founded the company iGenTraX UG which develops new ion sources and units to couple separation techniques with mass spectrometers. Since 2013 Prof. Schmitz is a consultant for various international companies and organizing – together with international partners – Sino-German workshops and analytical conferences in China and Vietnam.  
In 2018 Oliver has founded the Teaching and Research Center for Separation (TRC) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, which belongs to Agilent´s global network of world-class Centers of Excellence. He is the author/co‐author of two textbooks and 9 book chapters, 87 papers published in peer reviewed journals, more than 130 lectures and 4 patents.
Prof. Schmitz´s main research area is separation science, with a particular focus on the analysis of complex samples, the development of ion sources, the use and optimization of multidimensional LC and GC, ion mobility-mass spectrometry and Origin-of-Life. He is member of several editorial boards and was awarded the scholar-in-training award of the American Association for Cancer Research in 2003, the Gerhard-Hesse Prize for chromatography in 2013 and the Andrzej Waksmundzki medal award in 2019.