Mario Thevis

Mario Thevis graduated in organic chemistry as well as sports sciences in 1998. He earned his PhD in Biochemistry in 2001 and did post-doctoral research at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). After being a senior researcher, he was appointed as Professor for Preventive Doping Research at the German Sport University Cologne in 2006. Mario further qualified as Forensic Chemist in 2009 and became director of the European Monitoring Center for Emerging Doping Agents in 2011. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley Journal Drug Testing & Analysis and actively supported the doping control laboratories in Athens, Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, and London during the Olympic Games.