Sven Heiles is Assistant Professor for Lipidomics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Group Leader for Lipidomics at Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V., Germany. He obtained his PhD in 2012 in Darmstadt, Germany in physical chemistry, followed by postdoctoral work with Prof. Evan R. Williams in Berkley, USA and Prof. Bernhard Spengler Giessen, Germany. In Giessen, Sven established his own young investigator group focused on revealing lipid abundance and lipid structure alterations. In 2022, he accepted his current position in Dortmund/Essen Germany. Continuing his work in the field of analytical method development for lipidomics in Dortmund, he and his team translate these developments to cardiovascular diseases and cancer research with clinical partners. Sven is currently speaker of the mass spectrometry imaging group of the German Society for Mass Spectrometry (DGMS), speaker of the interest group bioanalytics of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM). He has been awarded the Justus Liebig Award in 2022 from the JLU Giessen, Germany and the Mattauch Herzog Award 2023 for his work on lipid structure elucidation methods for LC-MS and MALDI-MSI.