Nils Helge Schebb studied Food Chemistry and Toxicology in Münster and Karlsruhe. After receiving his PhD in Analytical Chemistry, he was a postdoc at the University of California, Davis and scientist at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. Since 2014 he is the Chair of Food Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal. His team develops and applies instrumental analytical methods to provide quantitative data of metabolites investigating their role in physiology. They have developed a comprehensive LC-MS based targeted metabolomics platform for the arachidonic acid cascade and use it for the investigation of the impact of nutrition and disease on the oxylipin pattern. He has published more than 130 scientific publications and book chapters.