We congratulate Dr. Stefan Pieczonka, who successfully started his two-year research stay at our partner university, the University of Queensland (UQ), as a DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow. At the Queensland Mass Spectrometry Symposium (QMSS) 2025, which was held at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, he was able to convince the audience with his presentation on the molecular signatures of the purity law and received the QMSS Speaker Award. We hope that he was also able to enjoy the world-famous beaches of “Surfers Paradise”, and wish him all the best for the rest of his stay.