Prof. Pablo Sinues, PhD

I am a chemist (University of Murcia, Spain) and hold a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (University Carlos III, Spain).  I performed my doctoral research in Madrid and at Yale University in the former lab of Prof. John B. Fenn (Nobel Prize winner in 2002) under the supervision of Prof. Juan Fernandez de la Mora. During this period, I became acquainted with electrospray ionization, ion mobility spectrometry and mass spectrometry. During my post-doctorate, I further developed mass-spectrometric methods for the real-time analysis of trace gases.

Between 2011 and 2017, I worked at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) as a senior scientist, where I deployed these novel analytical methods in a translational research program in collaboration with the University Hospital Zurich. I eventually earned my Habilitation in analytical chemistry at the ETH. I remain affiliated with the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH as Privatdozent.

Since 2017, I hold a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position (Botnar Research Professorship) at the University of Basel (Department of Biomedical Engineering). I am also principal investigator of the Research Network Zurich Exhalomics, which is an initiative by scientists from the Zurich area with the goal to provide technical solutions for the rapid and sensitive on-line analysis of breath. I have co-authored > 40 peer-reviewed papers covering fields ranging from engineering to medicine, and hold 2 patents. I serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Breath Research.