Our Team

Two research groups are currently participating in the development of APLI at the University of Wuppertal: 

Physical Chemistry

Dr. Thorsten Benter
(Professor of Chemistry)
PI
Dr. Klaus Brockmann Coordinator
Ronald Giese Design and construction
machine shop coordinator
Matthias Lorenz flow dynamics, temporal and spatial resolved ion acceptance
Hendrik Kersten Ionization mechanisms, Light Sources, Hyphenation Development
Valerie Derpmann Ab-Initio Calculations, negative mode ionization
Sonja Klee Ionization mechanisms, APLI-Hyphenation
Walter Wissdorf Numerical Simulations, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Analytical Chemistry

Dr. Oliver Schmitz
(Professor of Chemistry)
PI
Eduard Deibel APLI Marker / APLI Label Synthesis and Application
Dennis Klink APLI-Hyphenation application, APLI-GC MS

Former members of the APLI group at the University of Wuppertal:

Dr. Stefan Droste CEC- / ESI-APLI Hyphenation
Dr. Marc Constapel LC-APLI Hyphenation
Ralf Schiewek GC/HPLC/CE-APLI MS, labelling techniques
Rene Mönnikes GC-APLI MS
Ana Lydia Mangas Suarez REMPI of aromatic analytes with electronegative functional groups
Marc Schellenträger REMPI pathways

The following companies are involved in the development of APLI:

Bruker Daltonicsbruker-logo

ATL Lasertechnik GmbH

Igentrax igentrax-logo