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„We make the most powerful che­mi­cal ana­ly­sis tech­ni­ques more ef­fi­cent and ac­ces­si­ble for ever­y­bo­dy.“

About Plas­mi­on

Plas­mi­on was foun­ded with a clear mis­si­on: to make mass spec­tro­me­try more ac­ces­si­ble, more ef­fi­ci­ent, and more ver­sa­ti­le – for la­bo­ra­to­ries and in­dus­tries world­wi­de.

At the core of ever­y­thing we build is our pa­ten­ted SICRIT® Ion Source Tech­no­lo­gy, which un­locks a new le­vel of ana­ly­ti­cal free­dom across an ex­cep­tio­nal­ly wide ran­ge of ap­pli­ca­ti­ons: from chro­ma­to­gra­phy to di­rect scree­ning and MS ima­ging. Cus­to­mers at lea­ding re­se­arch in­sti­tu­ti­ons, phar­maceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies, and food pro­du­cers across more than 20 count­ries rely on SICRIT® to do ana­ly­ses that were pre­vious­ly out of reach or re­qui­red far more ef­fort.

Our team brings tog­e­ther che­mists, en­gi­neers, and ap­pli­ca­ti­on spe­cia­lists united by a shared dri­ve for in­no­va­ti­on. In 2026, Plas­mi­on joi­n­ed Shi­madzu Cor­po­ra­ti­on as a sub­si­dia­ry, a part­ner­ship that streng­thens our abili­ty to ad­van­ce SICRIT® tech­no­lo­gy and bring it to even more sci­en­tists and labs around the world.
We are still the agi­le, cu­rious team we have al­ways been, and we are just get­ting star­ted.

Chart showing the main Plasmion Team Values: Motivation, Impact, Reliability, Communication, Teamwork

Our Team

Photograph of Dr. Klaus Wutz, Plasmion team member

Dr. Klaus Wutz
Sup­p­ly Chain Ma­na­ger

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Photograph of Pe­tra Rome­ro, Plasmion team member

Pe­tra Rome­ro
Mar­ke­ting Ma­na­ger

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Photograph of Mar­kus We­ber, Plasmion team member

Mar­kus We­ber
Ap­pli­ca­ti­on Spe­cia­list & R&D

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Photograph of Dr. Jan Bucek, Plasmion team member

Dr. Jan Bucek
Head of Glo­bal Sa­les

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Photograph of Se­bas­ti­an Wie­se­mann, Plasmion team member

Se­bas­ti­an Wie­se­mann
Hard­ware De­ve­lo­p­ment

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Photograph of And­re Bahrdt, Plasmion team member

André Bahrdt
Head of Soft­ware Dept.

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Photograph of Cia­ra Con­way, Plasmion team member

Cia­ra Con­way
Head of Glo­bal Ap­pli­ca­ti­on De­ve­lo­p­ment

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Photograph of Julia Haas, Plasmion team member

Ju­lia Haas
Working Stu­dent Mar­ke­ting & De­sign

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Emi­lai­ne Cas­tro Pes­soa
Busi­ness De­ve­lo­p­ment & Ac­qui­si­ti­on

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Dr. Di­vya Ramesh
Field Ap­pli­ca­ti­on Spe­cia­list

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Ri­car­do Huer­ta
Working Stu­dent Busi­ness De­ve­lo­p­ment & Ac­qui­si­ti­on

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The Heads

Photograph of Dr. Jan-Chris­toph Wolf

Dr. Jan-Chris­toph Wolf, CTO

Jan is the Chief Tech­no­lo­gy Of­fi­cer (CTO) and Head of R&D at Plas­mi­on, a role he has held sin­ce 2016. In this po­si­ti­on, he de­fi­nes the com­pany’s tech­no­lo­gy stra­tegy, leads the R&D team, and dri­ves both the de­ve­lo­p­ment of new pro­ducts and the con­ti­nuous im­pro­ve­ment of exis­ting ones—from ear­ly-stage in­no­va­ti­on th­rough to mar­ket launch.

Jan holds a mas­ter’s de­gree in che­mis­try from the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­nich, whe­re he spe­cia­li­zed in or­ga­nic and ana­ly­ti­cal che­mis­try, and com­ple­ted his Ph.D. in the De­part­ment of Ana­ly­ti­cal Che­mis­try un­der Pro­fes­sor Rein­hard Niess­ner, gai­ning ex­ten­si­ve ex­per­ti­se in ae­ro­sol che­mis­try, in­stru­ment and me­thod de­ve­lo­p­ment, and mass spec­tro­me­try. He then con­duc­ted post­doc­to­ral re­se­arch at ETH Zu­rich un­der Pro­fes­sor Re­na­to Zen­o­bi, be­co­ming a lea­ding ex­pert in am­bi­ent io­niza­ti­on me­thods for mass spectrometry—the sci­en­ti­fic foun­da­ti­on he now brings to pro­duct in­no­va­ti­on at Plas­mi­on.

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Dr. Tho­mas Wolf, CEO

Tho­mas is the Chief Exe­cu­ti­ve Of­fi­cer (CEO) of Plas­mi­on, a role he has held sin­ce 2019. He is re­spon­si­ble for the com­pany’s over­all busi­ness stra­tegy and com­mer­cial lea­der­ship, over­see­ing fi­nan­ce, HR, and or­ga­niza­tio­nal de­ve­lo­p­ment as Plas­mi­on has grown. He shapes the com­pany’s long-term vi­si­on, dri­ves its mar­ket and growth stra­tegy, and re­pres­ents Plas­mi­on ex­tern­al­ly to in­ves­tors, part­ners, and in­dus­try stake­hol­ders.

Tho­mas holds a di­plo­ma in busi­ness ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Augs­burg, whe­re he spe­cia­li­zed in fi­nan­ce and in­for­ma­ti­on ma­nage­ment. He com­ple­ted his Ph.D. at the De­part­ment of In­for­ma­ti­on Sys­tems and Sus­tainable IT Ma­nage­ment un­der Pro­fes­sor Gil­bert Fri­d­gen at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bay­reuth, du­ring which he work­ed at Fraun­ho­fer FIT on pro­jects with part­ners such as Me­ta­fi­nanz and Deut­sche Bank. He then spent se­ve­ral ye­ars at McK­in­sey & Com­pa­ny, lea­ding en­ga­ge­ments across in­dus­tries in­clu­ding ad­van­ced in­dus­tries, au­to­mo­ti­ve & as­sem­bly, and glo­bal en­er­gy and ma­te­ri­als.

More about Tho­mas

Photograph of Dr. Tho­mas Wolf

Suc­cessSto­ry

  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 2020 – 2021
  • 2022
  • 2023
  • 2024
  • 2025–2026

  • Go-to-mar­ket

    Go-to-mar­ket

    In 2018, it fi­nal­ly hap­pen­ed: Plas­mi­on’s Go-to-mar­ket ba­cked by VCs and Busi­ness An­gels with sec­tor ex­pe­ri­ence.

    Plas­mi­on has been award­ed with dif­fe­rent pri­zes, among­st others the Ache­ma Grün­der­preis, the most re­now­ned pri­ce of the so­cie­ty for che­mi­cal en­gi­nee­ring and bio­tech­no­lo­gy.

    World map with a highlighted country (Germany) and the logos of three prizes (Businessplan Wettbewerb Schwaben, Achema Gründerpreis, Münchener Businessplan Wettbewerb) showing the Plasmion development story

  • Off to new shores

    Off to new shores

    Af­ter hit­ting the Ger­man mar­ket in 2018 with their SICRIT® ion source and re­spec­ti­ve add-on pro­ducts, Plas­mi­on part­ne­red with se­ve­ral sa­les and ser­vice part­ners to con­quer new count­ries in Eu­ro­pe and Asia.

    Plas­mi­on has also been na­med as one of the Red Her­ring Top 100 Eu­ro­pe, one of Hel­lo To­mor­ro­w’s Deep Tech Pio­neers, and was award­ed with the Fu­ture En­gi­nee­ring Award at Uni­ver­si­ty In­no­va­ti­on Chall­enge by Han­dels­blatt and Goe­the Uni­ver­si­ty.

    World map with eight highlighted countries and the logos of three prizes (Handelsblatt, Red Herring, Global Summit) showing the Plasmion development story

  • De­fy­ing the cri­sis

    De­fy­ing the cri­sis

    Du­ring the glo­bal pan­de­mic, Plas­mi­on con­tin­ued to ex­tend its sa­les and ser­vice net­work with se­ve­ral part­ners all over the world, to in­crease the glo­bal pre­sence and build up re­si­li­ence for the ye­ars to come.

    Bes­i­des, Plas­mi­on has been award­ed with the In­ter­na­tio­nal Food-Tech award in sil­ver by the Ger­man Agri­cul­tu­ral So­cie­ty and na­med fi­na­list at the Wi­ley Ana­ly­ti­cal Sci­ence Award.

    World map with ten highlighted countries and the logos of two prizes (DLG, Wiley Analytical Science Award) showing the Plasmion development story

  • On the tracks of Chris­to­pher Co­lum­bus

    On the tracks of Chris­to­pher Co­lum­bus

    Af­ter be­ing able to suc­cessful­ly es­tab­lish and grow with the busi­ness in Eu­ro­pe and Asia, Plas­mi­on fi­nal­ly hit the United Sta­tes of Ame­ri­ca, the home turf of most of the big mass spec­tro­me­try ven­dors.

    Bes­i­des, Plas­mi­on came up with its Ha­Voc pro­duct line, a sen­so­ry sys­tem ba­sed on mass spec­tro­me­try for in­dus­tri­al real-time mo­ni­to­ring of VOCs. This in­no­va­ti­on right away has been re­ward­ed with rank #4 at the Ana­ly­ti­cal Sci­en­tist In­no­va­ti­on Award 2022.

    World map with thirteen highlighted countries and the logos of one prize (Analytical Scientist Innovation Award) showing the Plasmion development story

  • Hard by the wind

    Hard by the wind

    In the first half of 2023, Plas­mi­on of­fi­ci­al­ly an­noun­ced a Co-Mar­ke­­ting agree­ment with Agi­lent Tech­no­lo­gies, one of the big­gest MS ven­dors. Bes­i­des, Plas­mi­on com­ple­men­ted its pro­duct port­fo­lio for lab ap­pli­ca­ti­ons with the long-awai­­ted LC-Mo­­du­­le, which en­ables the cou­pling of li­quid chro­ma­to­gra­phy with the SICRIT® gas-pha­­se tech­ni­que.

    Alt: World map with three highlighted countries showing the Plasmion development story

  • Ri­ding the Wave of In­no­va­ti­on

    Ri­ding the Wave of In­no­va­ti­on

    In 2024, Plas­mi­on ex­pan­ded into new in­ter­na­tio­nal mar­kets, es­tab­li­shing a pre­sence in Ita­ly, Egypt, and the UAE. Streng­thening its com­mit­ment to in­no­va­ti­on, the com­pa­ny si­gned a co-mar­ke­­ting agree­ment with Wa­ters Cor­po­ra­ti­on, a glo­bal lea­der in mass spec­tro­me­try, to fur­ther enhan­ce ana­ly­ti­cal tech­no­lo­gies used in sci­en­ti­fic la­bo­ra­to­ries and ap­pli­ed mar­kets world­wi­de. Ad­di­tio­nal­ly, Plas­mi­on in­tro­du­ced Ha­Voc 2.0, fea­turing a re­de­si­gned struc­tu­re and ground­brea­king tech­no­lo­gi­cal ad­vance­ments.

  • Set­ting Sail to New Ho­ri­zons

    Set­ting Sail to New Ho­ri­zons

    2025 brought a new ad­di­ti­on to Plas­mi­on’s pro­duct fa­mi­ly: the Jet De­sor­ber, ex­pan­ding the pos­si­bi­li­ties for fast and di­rect sam­ple ana­ly­sis. The com­pa­ny also deepe­ned its re­la­ti­onship with Shi­madzu, a lea­ding force in ana­ly­ti­cal in­stru­men­ta­ti­on, as Shi­madzu Bra­zil be­ca­me an of­fi­ci­al dis­tri­bu­tor for the SICRIT® Io­niza­ti­on Tech­no­lo­gy.

    Buil­ding on this re­la­ti­onship, 2026 mark­ed a new chap­ter in the col­la­bo­ra­ti­on. Plas­mi­on and Shi­madzu en­te­red a full part­ner­ship, streng­thening their shared com­mit­ment to ad­van­cing mass spec­tro­me­try so­lu­ti­ons for la­bo­ra­to­ries and in­dus­tri­al ap­pli­ca­ti­ons world­wi­de.