Senior Scientist & Mass Spectrometry Specialist
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Hector Gallart-Ayala is an Analytical Metabolomics Specialist and Senior Scientist at the Metabolomics Platform, University of Lausanne. His research expertise is in targeted and non-targeted mass spectrometry-based metabolomics application to biomedical research (inflammation and cancer metabolism), large clinical studies and the effect of environmental exposures to human health.
He obtained his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2010. He joined UNIL in April 2017 after working as a postdoctoral researcher in Laboratory for the study of residues and contaminants in food (LABERCA) (Nantes, France) and Wheelock’s Lab at Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden). He also worked as a Senior Support Specialist Academia-OMICS at SCIEX.