Carlos AFONSO

BIOGRAPHY

Carlos Afonso received his PhD in analytical chemistry in 2000 at the University of Paris 6 under the supervision of Pr Jean Claude Tabet. He joined, the MS group of Pr Catherine Fenselau at the University of Maryland working in MS developments for the characterization of microorganisms. He obtained in 2002 a CNRS research scientist position in the group of Pr. Jean Claude Tabet at the of Paris 6 working on Fourier transform MS (FTICR MS) and ion activation.

He was appointed Professor at the University of Rouen in 2011 and took the lead of the MS research group. Since then he was mainly involved in the development of new methodologies for the characterization of highly complex mixtures based on ion mobility-mass spectrometry and FTICR MS. His group is part of the national CNRS FTICR network with the recent acquisition of a 12 Tesla instrument, the highest field in France.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• High resolution mass spectrometry
• Ion mobility spectrometry
• Highly complex organic mixtures
• Direct ionization methods
• Gas phase chemistry

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

150 publications, 1 book chapter, 1patent, 40 invited lectures