Upcoming event: IMSF Focus Group: Instrumentation (Webinar series) Mar 9 - 18, 2021.
The IMSF is proud to announce the first Instrumentation Focus Group event to be hosted as a webinar series. The 'Advancement in MS instrument development: from ionization to detection' series will showcase the latest in MS instrument developments, and will be presented by 4 industry/acedemic experts over 4 separate days. Registration is free of charge, but is required to recieve the ZOOM link via email. Please ensure that you register to each talk that you are wishing to attend as meeting links differ. For more details about dates/times and to register your interest for the presentations, please see the Speaker/presentation details lised below and click on the details to redirect to registration.

March 9, 17:00 CET: Dr. Olga Ovchinnikova (Oak Ridge National Lab, USA)
“Unravelling the Origins of Functionality through Correlative Multimodal Chemical Imaging”
March 11, 09:30 CET: Dr. Jens Soltwisch (University of Muenster, Germany)
“Post-Ionization in MALDI-MS for enhanced sensitivity and increased molecular coverage”
March 16 17:00 CET: Dr. Yury Tsybin (Spectroswiss, Switzerland)
"Harnessing the power of the un-reduced data in FTMS"
March 18, 09:30 CET: Dr. Dimitris Papanastasiou (Fasmatech, Greece)
Upcoming event: IMSS5 2021 @ Belfast
After a successful program at IMSS4 hosted by the Spanish Society in Sitges in 2019, IMSF are now inviting Registration of Interest for the 5th International Mass Spectrometry Summer School to be held on 15th – 20th August 2021 in Belfast. Click HERE or the banner below to register your interest.
Upcoming event: 23 IMSC 2021 @ Rio de Janeiro
IMSF along with the IMSC23 conference organising committee have been closely monitoring the unfolding COVID-19 crisis and have thus made the decision to postpone IMSC23 for 2020. These decisions were made with the safety of the mass spectrometry community as a primary consideration.
However, we are very pleased to announce that IMSC Rio will now take place in the new year, Dec 12-16 2021. Join us in Rio for a festival of mass spectrometry and stay on to enjoy the summer in Brazil
To find out more, please visit www.imsc2020.com or click the banner below!
2020 Thomson Medal Award winners:



IMSF congratulates Prof. Alison Ashcroft (University of Leeds, UK) and Prof. Ron Heeren (Maastricht University, Netherlands) on the award of the 2020 Thomson Medals!
More details on the history of the awards and previous winners are listed here.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) and IMSC 2020
Global conferences are currently under debate due to the current Coronavirus crisis. The latest predictions are that infections should have peaked by the end of June.
Currently, IMSC2020 WILL run from August 29 to September 04 as planned, but we are monitoring the situation on a daily basis. We will keep you updated through our regular channels.
We look forward to welcoming you to Brazil, and the charming and warm city of Rio. There we hope to celebrate the contributions of mass spectrometry in fighting this crisis.
IMSC 2020 Organizing Committee
IMSF Executive Board
IMSS4 2019 @ Barcelona
After a successful program at IMSS3 hosted by the Dutch Society in Croatia in 2017, IMSF is pleased to announce that IMSS4 will be hosted by the Spanish Society in Barcelona in 2019. Please click the image below for more information.
22 IMSC 2018 @ Florence: 1728 Participants from all over the world!
Thank you to all that attended and contributed to this event. Please click HERE or the banner below for photos of the conference, short courses, and participants.
IMSC Awards
The IMSF congratulates: Professors John R. Yates III (Scripps, USA) and Albert J. R. Heck (Utrecht, Netherlands) on the award of the 2018 Thomson Medal; and Professor Daniel Austin (Brigham Young, USA) on winning the 2018 Curt Brunnée award. IMSF look forward to the presentation of the award and associated lectures at IMSC in Florence.
Job Vacancies:
Please click the links below to view any job vacancies advertised by affiliated mass spectrometry societies:
American Society for Mass Spectrometry
British Mass Spectrometry Society
Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry
Dutch Society for Mass Spectrometry
French Society for Mass Spectrometry
Swiss Group for Mass Spectrometry