19/11/2025 Prof. Urban gave invited talk “My Experience as a Scientist in Taiwan” in the 2025 NSTC International Researcher Workshop.
30/10/2025 Congratulations to I-Ting on the successful defense of her MSc thesis and Chikondi on the successful defense of her PhD project proposal.
01/10/2025 Congratulations to Maheswar on receiving a small grant from the Mini-Project Program launched in the NTHU.
26/09/2025 Congratulations to Ying-Rong and Tzu-Ching on the successful defense of their MSc theses.
02/07/2025 Prof. Urban gives invited talk “Developments in Hyphenation of Sample Preparation Steps with Mass Spectrometry” in the 21st Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry Annual Conference held in Taoyuan.
23/06/2025 Prof. Urban and three MSc students attend the 10th Asia-Oceania Mass Spectrometry Conference in Ishigaki, Japan (22-25 June, 2025). Prof. Urban gives keynote talk “Exploring Microdroplet Interactions in Electrospray-like Ion Sources”. Ying-Rong presents poster “Increasing the Flexibility of Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Introduction of Multiple Modifier Vapors”. Tzu-Ching presents poster “Dual Ionization Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Hyphenated with Catalytic Oxygenation-Mediated Extraction”. I-Ting presents poster “Automatic Sample Additive Scans for Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry”.
30/04/2025 Congratulations to Min-Min and Bo-Hai on the successful defense of their MSc theses.
09/03/2025 Prof. Urban gives talk “On the Behavior of Microdroplets in Electrospray-Based Techniques” in the 2025 Chemistry National Meeting held in Taichung.
08/03/2025 Min-Min and Bo-Hai attend the 2025 Chemistry National Meeting held in Taichung. Min-Min presents poster “Point of Voltage Application in Electrospray Ionization Affects Mass Spectrometry Results”, and Bo-Hai presents poster “High-Speed Edgewise Imaging Unveils Microdroplet-Surface Interactions in Desorption Electrospray Ionization”.
22/01/2025 Prof. Urban has been awarded with the 2024 NTHU-Chichen Chen Distinguished Talent Chair.
27/09/2024 Prof. Urban obtained doctor habilitated (D.Sc.) degree from the University of Warsaw.
19/08/2024 Congratulations to Ching-Chi on the successful defense of his MSc thesis.

09/07/2024 Congratulations to Yu-Hao and Ching-Han on the successful defense of their MSc theses.

02/07/2024 Congratulations to Pin-Chieh and Fan-Lun on the successful defense of their MSc theses.

25/06/2024 The 2nd year MSc students presented their results in the departmental poster session. Pin-Chieh won the second prize and Fan-Lun won the third prize.
14/06/2024 Taking group photos.





06/06/2024 Prof. Urban and three MSc students (Ching-Han Chang, Ching-Chi Chan, and Pin-Chieh Hsu) attend the 72nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics held in Anaheim, CA, USA (June 2 – 6, 2024). Ching-Han presents the poster “Study on the Relationship between the Onset of Taylor Cone and Mass Spectrometry Signals”. Ching-Chi presents the poster “Computer Vision-Assisted Robotized Sampling of Volatile Organic Compounds”. Pin-Chieh presents the poster “Electric Field-Modulated Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Quantity Calibration and Mass Tracking”. Prof. Urban chairs the session “Fundamentals: Ionization Methods”.
27/04/2024 Prof. Urban gave talk “Skin Metabolomics by Mass Spectrometry” in the main session of the 29th Symposium on Analytical Technologies held in Taipei. Fan-Lun Meng gave oral presentation “Fizzy Extraction Secondary Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Analysis of Volatile Solutes in High-matrix Samples”. Yu-Hao Chen gave oral presentation “Modulation of On-axis Electrospray Ionization Using Orthogonal Sound Source”. Fan-Lun won Outstanding Oral Presentation Award.

12/04/2024 Prof. Urban gave talk “From Fizzy Extraction to PENVOC and Mass Specthoscope: Spectrometric Systems for Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds in Different Phases” during the 2024 Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry Spring Symposium “Recent Progress and Perspective in Mass Spectrometry Methodology and Instrumentation” held in Taipei.
29/01/2024 Group lunch.

04/12/2023 Congratulations to Hidayat on the successful defense of his PhD thesis.

13/11/2023 Pin-Chieh was awarded with the Great Eastern Resins Industrial Company scholarship.
25/10/2023 Congratulations to Hou-I on the successful defense of his MSc thesis.

16/10/2023 Congratulations to Maheswar on the successful defense of his PhD thesis.

14/09/2023 Congratulations to Zi Qing on the successful defense of her MSc thesis.

05/09/2023 Group lunch in the Spanish restaurant.

20/07/2023 Congratulations to David on the successful defense of his master thesis.

04/07/2023 Congratulations to Ruei-Tzung and Li-Li on the successful defense of their master thesis.


20/06/2023 Competition for graduate students in the NTHU Department of Chemistry. Congratulations to Hidayat on receiving the second award for the oral presentation. Congratulations to David on receiving the second award for the poster presentation and congratulations to Zi-Qing on receiving the third award for the poster presentation.
26/05/2023 Taking graduation photos.





23/04/2023 Prof. Urban received Shui-Mu Outstanding Teacher Award from the Shui-Mu Foundation of Chemistry.

10/04/2023 Congratulations to Decibel on the successful defense of her PhD thesis.

14/02/2023 We welcome the new member of the team.
23/12/2022 Group lunch.

05/12/2022 Congratulations to Zi-Qing on receiving USI education foundation award.
24/10/2022 Congratulations to Yun-Hsuan on the successful defense of her MSc thesis.
01/09/2022 Maheswar has successfully passed his PhD candidate exam to enter the final stage of his PhD studies. Congratulations to Yu-Jie, Hsuan-Ting, and Joo Inn on the successful defenses of their MSc theses.

25/07/2022 Congratulations to David on receiving Elite-well scholarship.
14/07/2022 Taking graduation photos.



14/07/2022 Group lunch.

07/07/2022 Congratulations to Yi-Wun on the successful defense of her MSc thesis.

04/07/2022 We welcome the new members of the team.
28/06/2022 Taking graduation photos.








22/04/2022 Dr. Urban gave online talk “Mass spectrometric toolkit for skin metabolomics” in the IPAS 2021 symposium, held in Zurich.
14/04/2022 Dr. Urban gave short online talk “Skin metabolomics” in the 3rd Chemistry/Life science brainstorming meeting hosted by MOST, held in Taipei.
10/01/2022 Hidayat has successfully passed his PhD candidate exam to enter the final stage of his PhD studies.

07/01/2022 Group lunch.

10/12/2021 Congratulations to David on receiving Great Eastern Resins Industrial award.
09/12/2021 Hsuan-Ting is attending the International Conference on Emergent Functional Matter Science 2021 held in Jiaoxi. He is presenting poster “Monitoring of Volatiles by Ion Mobility Spectrometry with Wireless Data Transmission and Centralized Data Analysis”.
17/11/2021 Dr. Urban received Xinhua Young Scholar award.
20/10/2021 Congratulations to Chi-Hsiang on the successful defense of his MSc thesis.

18/10/2021 Dr. Urban received Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from the MOST (refs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).


06/10/2021 Dr. Urban gave seminar lecture (“Analytical instrumentation: from prototypes to applications”) in the National Tsing Hua University (Institute of Analytical and Environmental Sciences).
01/09/2021 We welcome the new members of the team.
01/09/2021 Group lunch.

23/08/2021 Congratulations to Tzu-Hsin and Hsiang-Ting on the successful defenses of their MSc theses.


29/07/2021 Taking graduation photos.






29/07/2021 Congratulations to Yu-Ting and Kai-Chiang on the successful defenses of their MSc theses.

01/07/2021 We welcome the new members of the team.
19/03/2021 Dr Urban gave seminar lecture (“Analytical instrumentation: from prototypes to applications”) in the National Cheng Kung University (Chemical Engineering).
17/03/2021 Congratulations to Professor Pawel Urban for winning the Outstanding Young Scholar Award from Shui-Mu Foundation of Chemistry.

18/02/2021 The new Q-TOF mass spectrometer has arrived.
06/01/2021 Congratulations to Rakesh for receiving awards from the NCTU for his recent publications in Chemical Reviews and Analytical Chemistry.
01/01/2021 Congratulations to Rakesh on receiving the Scholarship Award for Excellence in Research from the CTCI Foundation. The award ceremony was held in Taipei on 19/12/2020.
29/12/2020 Group lunch.

11/12/2020 Dr Urban attended the International Conference on Emergent Functional Matter Science 2020 held in Suao. He gave a talk (“Detection of volatile compounds adsorbed on surfaces by mass spectrometry and ion-mobility spectrometry”).

10/12/2020 Kai-Chiang and Chi-Hsiang attended the International Conference on Emergent Functional Matter Science 2020 held in Suao. Kai-Chiang presented a poster (“Vending-machine-style skin excretion profiling”).

03/12/2020 Decibel and Hsiang-Ting have attended the 4th International Caparica Christmas Conference on Sample Treatment 2020 held online. They gave shotgun presentations: “Mass spectrometric analysis of skin excretions by hydrogel-phase sampling followed by automated liquid-phase re-extraction” and “Skin sampling with a flat solid-phase extraction probe followed by on-line mass spectrometric analysis”. Decibel’s presentation was awarded with the Excellent Shotgun Communication Prize.
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