In the past few years, we have fostered a collaborative research environment through partnerships with companies like Bruker, ThermoFisher, MasCom, Photonis, ZEISS, Tofwerk, Sciex, SYFT, Leybold, Bayer, ionSense, Fasmatech, and also a local company, a.p.f.. So far these collaborations have enabled us to support 14 PhD students, 5 postdoctoral researchers, and numerous master and bachelor students. Funding of nearly €3.5 million have been secured including instrumentation. Some collaborations focused on simply evaluating new instrumentation or specific hardware components. Others aimed at developing new hardware in particular in the field of ionization and ion sampling, and the adaption of mass spectrometers to various environments, e.g., to chambers used in the semiconductor industry.
