Robert Winkler is the Principal Investigator of the Biochemical and Instrumental Analysis Laboratory at the CINVESTAV UGA-Langebio Irapuato and a faculty member for the postgraduate programs Plant Biotechnology and Integrative Biology. His research topics include novel mass spectrometry techniques such as low-temperature plasma ionization and covalent protein staining, new approaches in the high-throughput metabolomic profiling of plants, computational mass spectrometry, and proteomics.