Dr. Juergen Kast obtained his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Konstanz, Germany in 1998, for the development of novel approaches to study protein interactions by mass spectrometry. He continued this line of research as a post‐doctoral fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, where he focused on the analysis of protein complexes in cells. In 2001, he joined the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he currently holds an appointment as Associate Professor at The Biomedical Research Centre and in the Department of Chemistry. He was appointed Scientific Director of the British Columbia Proteomics Network in 2009, and also is a Member of the Centre for Blood Research at UBC. His research focuses on the characterization of signal transduction mechanisms in mammalian cells, and the interaction of cells in the blood and immune system. He has pioneered novel proteomic methods such as formaldehyde cross‐linking in live cells to study protein interactions, and the multiplex detection of post‐translational modifications by mass spectrometry.