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Short Course


Instructors:

  • Brian H. Clowers, Ph. D. – Washington State University

  • Alexander Haack, Dr. – Leibniz University Hannover

  • Ansgar T. Kirk, Dr.-Ing. - ACKISION

The Short Course for the ISIMS 2025 will be held on the Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2-3, 2025. The syllabus and learning objectives are listed below. For further information, please contact Prof. Brian Clowers at brian.clowers AT wsu.edu or Alexander Haack at haack AT geml.uni-hannover.de.


The in-person short course is suitable for individuals with varying levels of experience, including those who are new to the field. All efforts will be made to accommodate the interest of the attendees with topics anging from IMS fundamentals to a wide array of applications, including detection and structural identification of molecules. Lectures cover various forms of IMS (e.g., drift tube IMS, DMS, TWIMS, TIMS, cyclic IMS, AIMS), stand-alone IMS instruments and tandem systems (e.g., coupled to chromatography and mass spectrometers). The short course  also includes the popular hands-on training with commercial IMS instruments!


Dates and Location:

  • Dates: Saturday, Aug 02 and Sunday, Aug 03, 2025

  • Location: Leonardo Royal Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz (conference hotel)

  • Room will be published shortly

Syllabus:


  • History and operating principles of IMS

  • Ionization sources and ion chemistry

  • Collisional theory and measuring mobility

  • Different types of IMS and tandem IMS systems (incl. IM-MS)

  • Applications

  • Masterclass on Modeling in IMS

  • Hands-on instrument demonstration


Learning Objectives:


After attending the short course, students will be familiar with:

  • Principles and operation of linear gradient ion mobility, differential mobility spectrometry,aspirator and dynamic field instruments (e.g., TIMS, TWIMS)

  • Instrument attributes associated with hyphenated mobility systems

  • Components of an IMS and their importance in relation to the performance of the IMS system

  • Fundamentals of ion mobility theory and modeling aspects (e.g., structure to mobility)

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