I was born on 28th July in 1982 in Békéscsaba, Hungary. I am the oldest child in our five members family, I have a younger brother and a younger sister. I made the elementary school and my high-school graduation also in Békéscsaba. Most of my relations and my friends live in or near this town, so that’s why I say: This is and this will always be my lovely hometown. I earned my diplom and my PhD degree in the University of Szeged. I am a Clinical Chemist and my PhD thesis based on the subject of Chiral Chromatography. My PhD supervisor was Prof. Antal Péter. After I earned my PhD title I got an opportunity to research in Olomouc, the Czech Republic. I have started the work in January, 2013 and I belonged to the Palacky University until August, 2014. My research area was food analysis by coupled gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. My work in Olomouc was interrupted by a four months research stay in Tuebingen, Germany from December, 2013 to March, 2014. I was investigating peptides by LC-MS in the group of Prof. Laemmerhofer. Thanks to the Humboldt Fellowship I started my 21 months period in Regensburg where lipid analysis is my research topic. Introduction “Non progredi est regredi” Contact Office address: University of Szeged Faculty of Science and Informatics Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry H-6720 Szeged, Dóm tér 7. Hungary Email address: patajz@chem.u-szeged.hu