Jane Thomas-Oates

Jane Thomas-Oates obtained her BSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Following two years as a founder member in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, in Athens, Georgia, US, and a further period at Imperial College, she obtained a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship, which she took up in the then expanding Department of Biochemistry at the University of Dundee, Scotland. From there, she moved to become Universitair Docent in the department of Mass Spectrometry at the University of Utrecht, and then to a Senior Lectureship in the Departments of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science at UMIST in Manchester (1998-2002), where her group formed part of the Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry. In 2002 she was appointed to the RSC/EPSRC Chair of Analytical Science at the University of York, where she leads the Analytical Science Research group, and is Chair of the Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry. The focus of the York Chair of Analytical Science is the development and application of mass spectrometry-based analytical approaches for post-genomic science. Jane’s research interests are in biological mass spectrometry, focusing on the development and application of mass spectrometry-based methods for application in the areas of proteomics, metabolomics, and glycomics.