Qualifications and Career
Stages | Periods and Details |
Degree programme | (Pre)Diploma studies in Chemistry at the EKU Tübingen (1988-1990) 1. Staatsexamen studies in Food Chemistry at the JMU Würzburg (1990-1993) 2. Staatexamen at the CLUA Sigmaringen (1993-1994) |
Doctorate | 1994-1999 Doctoral studies at the Chair of Food Chemistry at the JMU Würzburg, Germany. Title: Analytik von heterocyclischen aromatischen Aminen mittels Hochdruckflüssigchromato-graphie-Tandemmassenspektrometrie (HPLC-MS/MS), 1999, supervised by Prof. Dr. P. Schreier |
Stages of academic/professional career
| 2009 Habilitation in Food Chemistry (JMU Würzburg) 1998 – 1999 PostDoc at the f.r.u.i.t. Foundation, Heidelberg 2000 – 2006 Wiss. Assistentin (C1) at the Chair of Food Chemistry at the JMU Würzburg 2006 – 2009 W1-Professor in Molecular Nutrition at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) 2009 – 2016 W2-Professor in Food Chemistry and Molecular Nutrition at the RPTU Since 2016 W3-Professor in Food Chemistry and Toxicology at the RPTU |
Academic Distinctions
- DFG-Reisekostenstipendium ACS-Jahrestagung Philadelphia 9/2008, Title: Factors affecting the metabolic fate of bilberry anthocyanins
- Best poster prices (DGPT-Jahrestagung 2012, NULUX Conference 2011 und 2013)
- Price of the best talk: Int. conference ISANH Polyphenols, Lisbon, Portugal (June 2014)
- Nominated for the Landeslehrpreis Rheinland-Pfalz (2021)
Authorships/Book contributions
Römpp Online, Lebensmittelchemie/Toxikologie, 2013-2016
Toxikologie, Hrsg.: Hans Marquardt, Siegfried Schäfer, Holger Barth, Wiss. Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 3. Auflage, 2013. Kapitel: Lebensmitteltoxikologie
Moderne Lebensmittelchemie, Hrsg.: Markus Fischer, Marcus A. Glomb, Behr’s Verlag, Hamburg, 1. Auflage, 2015, Kapitel: 1.11 Bioaktive Komponenten – Polyphenole
Further activities
Expert activities:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG),
Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) Luxemburg
Austrian Science Fond (FFG)
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
Activities in the Research System
Awards and Further Professional Aspects
2020 – 2023 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry
2017 – 2020 Vice dean of the Faculty of Chemistry
2009 – 2020 Prüfungsausschussvorsitzende (PA) Bachelor Lebensmittelchemie
Since 2020 Stellvertretende Vorsitzende PA Ba Lebensmittelchemie
Since 2018 Prüfungsausschussvorsitzende Master Lebensmittelchemie
Since 2018 Prüfungsausschussvorsitzende Master Toxicology
Others
since 2014 Member of the managing board of the Leibniz-Institut für Food Systems Biology (FSB) ehemals Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie (DFA). Vice board leader.
since 2014 Kuratoriumsmitglied der Dr. Rainer Wild-Stiftung, Heidelberg.
since 2019 Member of the Advisory Board of FEI (Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e.V.)
since 2023 Member of the management board of FEI
2017-2021 COST action CA16112 ‘Personalized nutrition in the aging society – redox control of major age-related diseases’, management committee member, working group leader
2016-2020 COST action CA15132 ‘The comet assay as a human biomonitoring tool (hCOMET)’, management committee member
since 2023 Member of the Forschungsbeirat des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
Participation in scientific networks/research projects
2006 to date
Numerous collaborative research projects (BMBF, AiF, COST 15132 and 16112)
2017-2020
A sub-project in the cross-border InterReg project network BIOVAL. It deals with the use of brewing residues. Funded by the European Structural Fund for Regional Development (ERDF).
2015-2019
Project funding from the Rhineland-Palatinate Innovation Foundation. Project title: "Identification and isolation of biologically active compounds from side streams of wine and grape juice production".
2016-2019
Project funded by the Funding for Industrial Collective Research (IGF) from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (via AiF) through the Forschungsvereinigung Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e.V. (FEI) with the title: "Activity-guided fractionation of fruit juice extracts to identify active ingredients to influence glucose absorption in humans".
2018-2021
Project funded by the Funding for Industrial Collective Research (IGF) from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (via AiF) through the Forschungsvereinigung Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e.V. (FEI) with the title: "Activity-guided fractionation of fruit juice extracts to identify active ingredients to influence glucose absorption in humans".
2019-2023
Project funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) entitled "Establishment of biomarkers for the detection of furan uptake in humans" (project number: 423497382 or 1176/12-1).
2022-2025
Project funded by the Funding for Industrial Collective Research (IGF) from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (via AiF) through the Forschungsvereinigung Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e. V. (FEI) with the title: "Identification and technological enrichment of bioactive ingredients in non-alcoholic wines and sparkling wines" (AiF 22474N).
2022 to date
Project funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) entitled "Investigations into the reactivity and toxicity of furan analogs from thermally treated foods" (project number: 490818715 or 1176/13-1).
2023-2025
Project funded by the Funding for Industrial Collective Research (IGF) from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (via AiF) via the Forschungsvereinigung Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e. V. (FEI) with the title: "Influence of extracts from fruit juices and their ingredients on inflammatory processes" AiF 23033N.
2023-2029
Project funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation as part of the "CZS Breakthroughs" programme entitled: "Halocycles - Halogen cycles as important contributions to stabilizing the power grid and defossilizing the future industrial society".
Scientific cooperations (selection)
Prof. Dr. Peter Winterhalter, Institute for Food Chemistry, Technical University of Braunschweig
Prof. Dr. Andrew Collins, Division of Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Science, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway
Prof. Patrick Chaimbault, Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique - Approche Multi-échelle des Milieux Complexes ICPM, Université de Lorraine, Metz, France
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fischer, DLR Rheinpfalz, Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Dr. Katherine A. Muñoz Sepúlveda, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Reviewer for the following scientific journals
European Food Research and Technology (since 2001)
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (since 2004)
Molecular Nutrition and Food Research (since 2004)
Biotechnology Journal (since 2006)
Journal of Nutrition (since 2008)
British Journal of Nutrition (since 2008)
Central European Science Journal (since 2008)
European Journal of Nutrition (since 2009)
European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics (since 2009)
Planta Medica (since 2010)
Nutrition Research (since 2010)
Flavour and Fragrance Journal (since 2010)
Mutation Research (since 2010)
Journal of Food Science (since 2011)
European Food Research Technology (since 2011)
Food Chemistry (since 2011)
Food Research International (since 2012)
Phytochemistry (since 2013)
Journal of Food Science (since 2013)
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (since 2013)
Journal of Microencapsulation (since 2013)
Archives of Toxicology (since 2014)
Food Chemistry and Toxicology (since 2017)
Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry (since 2017)
Archives of Toxicology (since 2017)
Food & Function (since 2017)
International Journal of Food Science & Technology (since 2017)
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (since 2018)
Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology (since 2019)
Current Pharmaceutical Design (since 2019)
Chemico-Biological Interactions (since 2019)
Metabolites (since 2020)
Nutrients (since 2020)