Engagement in the Research System

Member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), Fachgruppe Lebensmittelchemie

Member of the Gesellschaft für Toxikologie (GT)

Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS)

Fellowships and awards

2015    Offer of a W3-professorship/chair for Food Chemistry, University of Bonn

2012    Offer of a W3-professorschip/chair for Nutritional Sciences, University of Giessen

2008    Offer of a W2-professorship for Food Chemistry, University of Hamburg

2008    Offer of a W2-professorship for Food Chemistry and Food Law, Technical University of Bremerhafen

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)

157 peer-reviewed publications, 15 book chapters, H-index: 43 (ResearchGate, 11/2023)

publications

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".

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)

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

• 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)

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)

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