Markus Ganzera

University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Talk Title: Mycosporine-like Amino Acids – an interesting class of natural products from an analytical perspective

Dr. Ganzera studied pharmacy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he also obtained his PhD in 1997. Thereafter he was more than 3 years post-doc and research scientist at the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, USA, interrupted by a 6 month stay at the Hoechst Rousell Vet. company, Vienna, Austria. In 2002 he returned to the University of Innsbruck, where he finished his habilitation in Pharmacognosy 2006 and was appointed to Associate Professor in 2012. He spent research internships at the Food and Drug Administration (College Park, USA), The Lawrence Berkeley Lab (Berkeley, USA) and at the University of Buffalo (Buffalo, USA).

His main research interest is the analysis of natural products by conventional (HPLC, LC-MS, GC) as well as less common (CE, CE-MS, CEC, SFC) techniques, including method development, validation and application to (medicinal) plants and products thereof. He has authored more than 170 scientific papers in international journals and since 2019 he is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis.