Beginning his career in 1984 at the Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, St. Petersburg, Andrej Shevchenko remained there until 1994 when he became a Visiting Scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg. Shevchenko obtained a Staff Scientist position at EMBL, where he remained until 2001 when he joined the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, as a Group Leader.