Dr. Thomas Metz is a Laboratory Fellow and the Chief Science Officer for the Biological Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). His research has focused primarily on developing and applying high throughput metabolomics and lipidomics methods, in conjunction with proteomics, in studies of chronic and infectious diseases, resulting in over 200 publications.
More recently, his research interests lie in development of multi-dimensional mass spectrometry workflows coupled with computational predictions of molecular signatures for reference-free compound identification. Previously, he led the Metabolomics Core for the NIH Common Fund Undiagnosed Diseases Network, the Proteomics Laboratory for The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young study, the Pacific Northwest Advanced Compound Identification Core within the NIH Common Fund Metabolomics Program, and the PNNL m/q Initiative. From 2021-2023 he was President of the Metabolomics Association of North America. Currently, he is Co-Lead of the ChemBio Analytical Sciences Hub of the Network of EXposomics in the United States (NEXUS) for Exposome Research Coordination.
Fun Fact: While at PNNL, Tom has been an avid softball player and won 5 consecutive championships in the lab league, as well as a Washington State championship.