he 8th International Mass Spectrometry School is a six day school aimed to give a high level education in fundamentals, advances, instrumentation, and applications of mass spectrometry to graduate, PhD and post-doc students, and others working in industries and in different institutions in the areas of chemistry, biosciences, food, environment, and medicine.

The school joins together participants from academia, public and private research centers and industry, and it is a useful occasion for allowing meeting of students and tutors coming from different countries and for creating new links and networking.

Topics include:
Mass spectrometry: overview & perspectives
Ionization techniques
Ambient mass spectrometry
Analyzers: in-time and in-space ion separation
High resolution mass spectrometry
Ion mobility
AI and machine learning
DIA & DDA methods. Target & untarget analysis
MS Imaging
Big data
Complex mixture analysis
Applications in food, doping, forensics, omics sciences, …
Innovation in instrumentation and methodologies

The school is organized in:
a) Tutorial lectures aimed at presenting theory, fundamentals, instrumentation and applications of mass spectrometry given by an international team of lecturers;
b) Poster sessions. Participants are encouraged to present a poster on their own research activity. Posters will be exhibited during the full period of the school to give the opportunity to those attending the school to go through;
c) Selected flash orals. Selected posters will be presented as flash oral communications;
d) Exercises with the active participation of students in solving some exercises on matters presented in the lectures;
e) Problem solving in which students present to other students and tutors problems encountered in their scientific activity receiving suggestions on how to try to solve them.
f) Social program: • Welcome party; • excursion to the beach; • Gala Dinner; • students leave their mark!