Thomas ProhaskaThomas Prohaska is professor for analytical chemistry at the BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Tulln, Austria). He studied chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology and received his PhD with summa cum laude in 1995. He became scientific researcher at the BOKU in the same year to build up a laboratory for elemental trace analysis. From 1998 to 2000 he was researcher at the EC joint research center IRMM in Geel, Belgium. He returned to the BOKU with a new focus on isotope research and became associate professor in 2002. In 2004, he received the START award for the setup of a new research laboratory (VIRIS). “I have dedicated my research to isotope science and metrology keeping the momentum of curiosity driven science.” Read More Read Less