Tomas Pluskal
Research Group Leader at IOCB Prague
Tomáš Pluskal is a group leader at IOCB Prague, where he heads the Biochemistry of Plant Specialized Metabolites research group (www.pluskal-lab.org). Building on his Ph.D. training from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and a postdoctoral fellowship conducted at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he develops computational and biochemical approaches to discover bioactive plant molecules. He co-authored the widely used software platform mzmine and recently introduced the AI-driven DreaMS model for identifying unknown compounds from mass spectrometry data. Tomáš is a recipient of the Neuron Award for Promising Scientists, an ERC Consolidator Grant, and is a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme.