Lennart Martens Lennart Martens is professor of systems biology at Ghent University, and group leader of the Computational Omics and Systems Biology (CompOmics) group at VIB, both in Ghent, Belgium. He has been working in proteomics bioinformatics since his Master's degree, which focused on the computational interpretation of peptide mass spectra. He then worked as a software developer and framework architect for a software company for a few years, before returning to Ghent University to pursue a Ph.D. focused on proteomics and proteomics informatics. During this time, he worked on the development of high-throughput peptide centric proteomics techniques and on bioinformatics tools to support these new approaches. In 2003 he started the PRIDE proteomics database at the EBI as a Marie Curie fellow of the European Commission. After obtaining his Ph.D., he rejoined the PRIDE group at EBI, which he coordinated for several years before moving back to Ghent University to take up his current position. Prof. Martens served as the chair of the ABRF iPRG in 2011, sits on the Board of DELSA (http://www.delsaglobal.org), the Royal Flemish Society for Chemistry - Proteomics, and the Belgian Proteomics Association. He serves as Academic Editor for PLoS ONE and Open Proteomics and holds Editorial Board positions at PROTEOMICS, BBA Proteins and Proteomics and Molecular BioSystems. An author on more than 135 peer-reviewed papers and has co-written two popular Wiley textbooks: Computational Methods for Mass Spectrometry Proteomics (ISBN: 978-0-470-51297-5), and Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry (ISBN: 978-1-119-96400-1).

Harald Barsnes currently works as a researcher at the Department of Clinical Science at the University of Bergen in Norway. He has a PhD from the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen in 2010, with a focus on bioinformatics and proteomics. Since then he has worked as a first a senior engineer and then a postdoc at the Proteomics Unit at the Department of Biomedicine in Bergen. The main focus throughout his career has been the development of user-friendly open source bioinformatics tools that enable and empower researchers to analyze their own proteomics data. This has resulted in numerous publications and a long list of freely available software, including PRIDE Converter, SearchGUI and PeptideShaker. Barsnes has also been a guest editor in PROTEOMICS and has co-authored a Wiley text book called Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry (ISBN: 978-1-1199-6400-1). In 2015 he received the prestigious Meltzer Award for Excellent Young Researchers at the University of Bergen.

Marc Vaudel currently works as a postdoc at the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Bergen, Norway. Marc obtained an engineer degree in France at the École Centrale de Lyon, followed by a PhD at the biomedical department of the Ghent University, Belgium, in cooperation with the Leibniz - Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V. in Dortmund, Germany, under the joint supervision by Prof. Dr. Lennart Martens (Gent, Belgium) and Prof. Dr. Albert Sickmann (Dortmund, Germany). His main focus is the investigation of biomedical samples using proteomics. Marc is also an associated member of the Computational Omics and Systems Biology (CompOmics) group at VIB in Ghent, headed by Prof. Dr. Lennart Martens, of the Bergen stem cell consortium headed by Prof. Dr. Helge Ræder, and member of the educational committee of the European Proteomics Association (EuPA).