Dr. Emma Schymanski is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Environmental Chemistry Department at Eawag: The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Her main focus is on the identification of non-target (unknown) environmental contaminants, structure generation and candidate selection using property prediction. Current projects include ContaminantID, RMassBank within the NORMAN Network and EDA-EMERGE.

Dr. Steffen Neumann is head of the Bioinformatics and Mass Spectrometry group at the Institute of Plant Biochemistry, which works on several aspects of (plant) metabolomics. Projects in the group cover various stages in the bioinformatics and metabolomics pipeline and include co-maintaining the Bioconductor package XCMS (amongst others), peak annotation with CAMERA, mass spectral fragmentation with MetFrag and hosting the first European node of MassBank.

Peak picking and climbing is part of our daily exercises, although we're more often at the office desks than in the swiss alps. We have collaborated on extending MetFrag for GC/MS data and developing energy-based criteria for candidate selection and creation (both with Sebastian Wolf) and now organise CASMI. We severely regret not being able to participate, but maybe next year the challenges are provided by others, so that we can join as contestants ?!