We are happy to announce that Dr. Hannes Hahne has been awarded the prestigious Wolfgang-Paul-Studienpreis from the German society for mass spectrometry (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie, DGMS) at the 47th annual meeting of the DGMS in Frankfurt (Mar 2nd – 5th 2014). He has been awarded for his achievements during his PhD project on novel approaches for glycoproteomics.