Wolfgang Vautz

After studies in physics, informatics and meteorology research work on the measurement of atmospheric trace compounds and on modelling of areal concentration distributions, PhD in 1991. Since 1991 senior scientist at Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V., Dortmund, Germany, first in the atmospheric chemistry department and involved in projects on vegetation damage in the Atlantic Rain Forest. Since 2002 involved the ion mobility spectrometry group focused on method development and application for process control, food quality and safety and medical applications via breath analysis in the department of miniaturization. Since 2017 president of the International Society of Ion Mobility Spectrometry.