On May 20, we hosted another session of Constructor Talks, bringing together more than 50 participants on-site and online for a conversation with Prof. Dr. Alexander Makarov – Senior Director of Research, Life Science Mass Spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK, and inventor of the Orbitrap mass spectrometer.
The talk, “Bremen: The World Capital of Mass Spectrometry,” became a starting point for a discussion on how high-resolution mass spectrometry is changing the way modern science works in proteomics, biopharma, environmental analysis, and computational biology. Prof. Dr. Alexander Makarov spoke about the development of Orbitrap and Astral technologies, and the growing role of measurement systems as part of a larger research infrastructure, where engineering, physics, computation, and omics methods increasingly develop together rather than separately.
The discussion continued well beyond the formal Q&A, touching on the future of mass spectrometry, computational interpretation, and the growing role of high-resolution analytical systems as core infrastructure for modern science.
Thanks to everyone who joined us — and especially to Alexander Makarov for an exceptionally insightful conversation.
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Constructor Talks is our ongoing series of research conversations with scientists, inventors, and technology leaders working at the intersection of modern science, computation, and advanced research tools. More sessions will be announced soon.
Inside Constructor Talks: Alexander Makarov on the Future of Mass Spectrometry
