Erica Forsberg

About Erica Forsberg

Erica is working with Bruker Daltonics\' Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry team as Vice President of Metabolomics overseeing the Americas and Asia Pacific. She is responsible for developing and improving existing metabolomics and lipidomics workflows in-line with the applications team and customers. Erica\'s 9+ years experience in the mass spectrometry-based metabolomics field is a key driver to her success in this role including fundamental knowledge of mass analysis and ion mobility, as well as bioinformatics solutions for in-depth data analysis.Prior to her role at Bruker, she was an assistant professor at San Diego State University. Her research focused on mass spectrometry-based metabolomics of microbiomes, with a particular focus on the microbiome-gut-brain axis. Erica was a post-doctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, at the Center for Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry under the, where she worked on global metabolomics on biological samples for the study of immunotherapy, Parkinson\'s disease and bacterial remediation of contaminated environmental sites, as well as mass spectrometry-based tissue imaging.Her graduate career was spent at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada, developing high throughput screening assays for the identification of enzyme inhibitors in complex mixtures using tandem mass spectrometry. Here she gained valuable expertise in mass spectrometric method development, enzyme kinetics, silicon chemistry, secondary metabolite screening from natural product extracts, recombinant DNA technology, bacterial cell culture, protein expression and purification.

Experience

1. Vice President Metabolomics

   Bruker

   Apr 2023 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   Leading the Metabolomics Business Unit at Bruker Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry with a focus on the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Education

• Mohawk College

  Technology Diploma, Chemical Engineering Technology

  1998 — 2001

• McMaster University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Biology

  2008 — 2015

• McMaster University

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Chemistry (Co-op)

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Transformations
• Chromatography
• Physical Chemistry
• High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Hplc)
• Drug Discovery
• Organic Synthesis
• Organic Chemistry
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (Pcr)
• High Throughput Screening
• Research
• Hplc
• Chemistry
• Characterization
• Spectroscopy
• Pcr
• Analytical Chemistry
• Molecular Biology
• Gas Chromatography
• Cell Culture
• Lc-Ms
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• Instrumentation
• Nanotechnology
• Purification
• Protein Expression
• Uv-Vis
• Teaching
• Uv/Vis
• Gc-Ms
• Assay Development
• Nmr
• Mass Spectrometry
• Biochemistry
• Protein Chemistry