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Paul Baker received his PhD in Biochemistry from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He did his post-doctoral work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he helped lead the discovery of a novel class of anti-inflammatory lipid mediators—nitrated lipids. He continued to work on nitrated lipids as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine until June of 2011 when he joined SCIEX. As Senior Applications Manager and the Global Lead Scientist for Lipidomics, he pioneered the use of differential Ion mobility spectrometry and electron impact dissociation for the analysis of lipids. In May of 2018, Paul joined Avanti Polar Lipids as the Director of the Analytical and Lipidomics divisions, where he focused on developing new analytical and internal standard strategies for lipid analysis. Paul rejoined SCIEX in 2020 as Senior Staff Scientist for Lipidomics and Metabolomics in the Global Strategic Marketing division.