Dr. Erick Baez Bolivar

Function

research scientist in the group of Charlotte Uetrecht

At UzL since

2026

Other affiliations

CSSB Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY & Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV) & University of Luebeck, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.

Funding

Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

ORCID

0009-0007-9612-2027

CSSB Centre for Structural Systems Biology
c/o Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Notkestraße 85, Building 15
22607 Hamburg
Gebäude CSSB, Raum O2.139

Email:	erick.baez(at)cssb-hamburg.de
Phone:	+49 40 8998 6372

Research and work

Research focus

native mass spectrometry (MS)-based method development for characterization of glycoproteins
probing gas-phase dissociation techniques for structural characterization of proteins.

Methods & approaches

native und top-down MS
capillary electrophoresis-MS

Expertise

native MS-based method development for quantification of binding affinity interactions, and structural characterization of proteins dissolved in physiologically relevant conditions
capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry, and offline capillary isoelectric focusing-mass spectrometry for characterization of charge variants

CV

since 2026	postdoc	University of Luebeck, Institute of Chemistry and Metabolomics, Germany
2021-2026	doctoral candidate	Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
2018-2021	master student (Analytical Chemistry)	University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
2013-2015	bachelor student (Chemistry)	Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

Academic distinctions

2026	Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2025	Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, College of Science, Purdue University, USA