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Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Ulises H. Guzmán
Novo Nordisk Foundation
2
Patricia Skowronek
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
3
Lilian R. Heil
Thermo Fisher Scientific (United States)
4
Kolja Stahl
Technische Universität Berlin
5
Casey J. Chen
University of California System
6
Anubhav Kumar
Global Hospitals
7
Claudia Ctortecka
IPM Institute of North America
8
Steven R. Shuken
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Germany)
9
Ashley M. Frankenfield
George Washington University
10
Alan Wortman
University of Michigan

Papers

1
Ultra-fast label-free quantification and comprehensive proteome coverage with narrow-window data-independent acquisition
Nature Biotechnology|2024
333 cit.
2
Automated single-cell proteomics providing sufficient proteome depth to study complex biology beyond cell type classifications
Nature Communications|2024
102 cit.
3
Modelling protein complexes with crosslinking mass spectrometry and deep learning
Nature Communications|2024
81 cit.
4
Water Microdroplets in Air: A Hitherto Unnoticed Natural Source of Nitrogen Oxides
Analytical Chemistry|2024
78 cit.
5
A Source of the Mysterious <i>m</i>/<i>z</i> 36 Ions Identified: Implications for the Stability of Water and Unusual Chemistry in Microdroplets
ACS Central Science|2025
30 cit.
6
Are Hydroxyl Radicals Spontaneously Generated in Unactivated Water Droplets?
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2024
25 cit.
7
Electronic Excitation and High‐Energy Reactions Originate From Anionic Microdroplets Formed by Electrospray or Pneumatic Nebulization
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2025
17 cit.
8
An Alternative Explanation for Ions Put Forth as Evidence for Abundant Hydroxyl Radicals Formed Due to the Intrinsic Electric Field at the Surface of Water Droplets
Analytical Chemistry|2025
16 cit.
9
Are Hydroxyl Radicals Spontaneously Generated in Unactivated Water Droplets?
Angewandte Chemie|2024
9 cit.
10
Higher-Throughput Proteome Profiling Enabled by Parallelized Pre-Accumulation and Optimized Ion Processing in the Orbitrap Astral Zoom Mass Spectrometer
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics|2026
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Lívia S. Eberlin
Baylor College of Medicine
2
Hannes Röst
University of Toronto
3
Ben C. Collins
Queen's University Belfast
4
Aaron A. Thompson
Janssen (United States)
5
H. Paul Benton
Scripps Research Institute
6
Jeffrey M. Spraggins
Vanderbilt University
7
Tiannan Guo
Westlake University
8
Ron O. Dror
Stanford University
9
Jens Soltwisch
University of Münster
10
Michael T. Marty
University of Arizona

Papers

1
How accurately can one predict drug binding modes using AlphaFold models?
eLife|2023
94 cit.
2
Mass spectrometry imaging to explore molecular heterogeneity in cell culture
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
89 cit.
3
Artificial intelligence defines protein-based classification of thyroid nodules
Cell Discovery|2022
72 cit.
4
A Comparative Analysis of Data Analysis Tools for Data-Independent Acquisition Mass Spectrometry
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics|2023
71 cit.
5
How accurately can one predict drug binding modes using AlphaFold models?
eLife|2023
61 cit.
6
High Spatial Resolution MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry of Fresh-Frozen Bone
Analytical Chemistry|2022
57 cit.
7
Structural basis of efficacy-driven ligand selectivity at GPCRs
Nature Chemical Biology|2023
55 cit.
8
Proteomic landscape of epithelial ovarian cancer
Nature Communications|2024
52 cit.
9
Spatial proteomics of single cells and organelles on tissue slides using filter-aided expansion proteomics
Nature Communications|2024
51 cit.
10
Stability and Dissociation of Adeno-Associated Viral Capsids by Variable Temperature-Charge Detection-Mass Spectrometry
Analytical Chemistry|2022
49 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Matthias Mann
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
2
R. Graham Cooks
Purdue University West Lafayette
3
Ruedi Aebersold
ETH Zurich
4
Richard Smith
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
5
John R. Yates
Scripps Research Institute
6
Martin Karplus
Harvard University
7
Steven P. Gygi
Harvard University
8
Alan G. Marshall
Florida State University
9
Erik Lindahl
Linköping University
10
Richard M. Caprioli
Vanderbilt University

Papers

1
GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
SoftwareX|2015
26.8k cit.
2
GROMACS 4:  Algorithms for Highly Efficient, Load-Balanced, and Scalable Molecular Simulation
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation|2008
16k cit.
3
MaxQuant enables high peptide identification rates, individualized p.p.b.-range mass accuracies and proteome-wide protein quantification
Nature Biotechnology|2008
15.7k cit.
4
<scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations
Journal of Computational Chemistry|1983
14.9k cit.
5
All-Atom Empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B|1998
14.5k cit.
6
Mass Spectrometric Sequencing of Proteins from Silver-Stained Polyacrylamide Gels
Analytical Chemistry|1996
9.1k cit.
7
Universal sample preparation method for proteome analysis
Nature Methods|2009
8.7k cit.
8
GROMACS 4.5: a high-throughput and highly parallel open source molecular simulation toolkit
Bioinformatics|2013
7.6k cit.
9
GROMACS 3.0: a package for molecular simulation and trajectory analysis
Journal of Molecular Modeling|2001
7k cit.
10
An approach to correlate tandem mass spectral data of peptides with amino acid sequences in a protein database
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry|1994
6.6k cit.

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