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Katja B Prestø Elgstøen is head of the metabolomics activity at Oslo University Hospital (OUH). She is a chemist by training and holds a PhD in medical chemistry from the University of Oslo (UIO) in 2010. She is also head of the recently approved Core Facility for Global Lipidomics and Metabolomics at UIO. Since finishing her PhD, she has been responsible for development and implementation of LC and MS-based diagnostic methods for metabolites in advanced laboratory diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism. Her research focus has been on development of LC-high resolution MS based global (untargeted) metabolomics methods for clinical use. During the last years, global lipidomics has also been a prioritized task. With her long background in laboratory diagnostics, Dr. Elgstøen has a special focus on implementation of global metabolomics and lipidomics in a diagnostic setting. Her group is involved in use of these tools for solving difficult diagnostic cases, also from outside of OUH. She serves as supervisor and lecturer in metabolomics, chromatography and mass spectrometry at both bachelor, master and PhD level at both OsloMet and UIO, and students at all educational levels are doing their projects in her metabolomics group at OUH. She was also invited as lecturer at The European Metabolomics Society Workshop on Dried Blood Spot Metabolomics. Dr. Elgstøen also has special focus on the importance of proper study design in metabolomics, standardization of result reporting, development of workflow for annotation of unknowns, and implementation of quality assurance systems to improve the overall utility of metabolomics.