Dr Warwick Dunn is a Lecturer in Metabolomics at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Warwick has applied metabolomics for more than 14 years in areas as diverse as microbial phenotyping, plant physiology and human ageing and diseases. Warwick's research interests focus on (1) the development of innovative mass spectrometric and computational methods and resources to increase the quality of metabolomics data; (2) innovative developments in metabolite annotationa nd identification and (3) application of mass spectrometry metabolomics to the study of human ageing and diseases including research in endocrinology, cardiovascular and womens health. Warwick is a Director of the Metabolomics Society, chairs the society's task group on metabolite annotation and identification and is an editoral board member of Metabolomics.