Prof. Oliver Fiehn has pioneered developments and applications in metabolomics with over 450
publications to date with a current h-index 119, i10 index 401. He started his career as group leader
at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany. Since 2004 he is
faculty member in the College of Biological Sciences (MCB department) and Professor at the UC Davis
Genome Center, overseeing his research laboratory and the satellite core service laboratory in
metabolomics research. In 2012 he became the Director of the UC Davis West Coast Metabolomics
Center, supervising 35 staff operating 17 mass spectrometers. To focus on large cohort studies and
translational metabolomics, he has added the ThermoFisher Center of Excellence in Clinical
Metabolomics at the UC Davis clinical campus in Sacramento, CA since 2021. In public outreach, the West Coast Metabolomics Center holds monthly public webinars, has a YouTube channel, a newsletter, invites international scholars to research visits and organizes three metabolomics professional courses per year.