Curriculum vitae:
born 1965, Braunschweig, Germany
1991 M.S., Human Nutrition, University of Gießen, Germany
1991-1996 Research Associate, Ph.D. Program, University of Vienna, Austria
1995 Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude, University of Vienna, Austria
1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Habilitation Program, University of Kiel, Germany
2001 Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
2002 venia legendi for the subjects "Human Nutrition" and "Food Science", University of Kiel, Germany
2003 venia docendi for the subject "Food Science", Technical University of Munich, Germany
2003-2007 Vice Director at the German Research Center for Food Chemistry, Garching, Germany
2004 Hans-Adolf Krebs Prize awarded by the German Nutrition Society
since 2007 Senior Scientist and group leader of "Bioactives" at the German Research Center for Food Chemistry, Garching, Germany
2007-2009 Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin/Madison, USA
since 2008 Executive Committee member of the Food Research Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2009-2011 Professor and Chair of the Research Platform of Molecular Food Science, University of Vienna, Austria
since January 2011 Professor of Biofunctionality of Food, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
Research Areas:
*Isolation and chemical characterisation of novel food compounds
*Bioactivity and bioavailability studies of food compounds in cell culture, animal experiments and human intervention studies.
*Impact of food processing on the bioactivity and bioavailability of food compounds
*Strategies to improve the bioactivity of processed foods and compounds there of |
