School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK;
A Research Fellow at the University of Manchester in the Respiratory group. Dr. Ahmed's expertise is in the application of metabolomics to clinical breath research. He was recently awarded the Anton Amann award by the International Association for Breath Research and was highlighted as an emerging investigator in the American Thoracic Society’s Blue Journal. His current research focuses on understanding the significance of microbial and environmental exposures in chronic respiratory disease and how they can be monitored and prevented, aiming towards improving health outcomes.

LECO Corporation;
David E. Alonso is an applications chemist at LECO Corporation in Saint Joseph, Michigan. He specializes in the use of modern instrumental tools (e.g., NMR, IR, and MS) for the analysis of complex samples. His current work focuses on the utilization of multidimensional chromatography and high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry for the analysis of metabolomics and environmental samples. In addition, he is interested in the analysis of forensic drugs such as synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl analogs) and cannabinoids.

Sepsolve Analytical Canada;
Jonathan Grandy received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Waterloo, focusing on SPME and TF-SPME sample preparation approaches for GC-MS for both environmental and biological samples. Since joining SepSolve analytical, he has served a joint role as a Service Engineer and Application Scientist, focusing not only on ensuring that newly installed TD-GCxGC-ToF instrumentation is functioning correctly but also on assisting other scientists in successfully implementing new methods in their systems. This has allowed him to continue analytical method development for human breath and skin volatilome with others across North America.

School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA;
Heather Bean is a bioanalytical chemist that specializes in untargeted volatilomics using two-dimensional gas chromatography–time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC-TOFMS). Her research team characterizes the volatilomes of humans, animals, plants, and environmental microbial consortia with two main purposes: 1) developing novel biomarkers and diagnostics, with an emphasis on breath tests, and 2) investigating the roles of volatile and semi-volatile metabolites in mediating microbe–microbe and host–microbe interactions.