Dr. Shane Ellis obtained his PhD from the University of Wollongong in 2013. From 2012 to 2014, he conducted postdoctoral research at FOM-AMOLF in Amsterdam, and from 2014 to 2020, he was assistant professor (tenured) at the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging (M4I) Institute at Maastricht University. At M4I, he led the instrumental and application development group for mass spectrometry imaging. In 2020, he returned to Wollongong as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, where he continues his research into mass spectrometry imaging and its application to lipidomics.