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Profile Dr. Klaas Reglitz

Head of Subunit Integrated Data Management

& Senior Researcher Group Food Metabolome Chemistry

Lise-Meitner-Str. 34
85354 Freising
Germany
Tel.: +49 8161 71-2931

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Consumers’ food and beverage selection is mainly driven by sensory aspects to which odor-active compounds make the most crucial contribution. Using state-of-the-art MOLECULAR SENSORY SCIENCE approaches including automated solvent-assisted flavor evaporation (aSAFE) for the artifact-avoiding isolation of food volatiles, gas chromatography–olfactometry (GC–O) for the differentiation of odorants from the bulk of odorless volatiles, and sensory tests to rank the odorants according to their importance, our team identifies the KEY ODORANTS in foods and beverages. Quantitation of the key odorants along the food value chain allows us to identify the crucial parameters influencing the sensory quality on the levels of agriculture, processing, and storage. Optimization of these parameters finally results in foods and beverages with improved quality and increased EATING PLEASURE for the consumer.

 

2018 – current Leibniz-Institute of Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich Munich, Freising
Senior Researcher - Section I - Sensory Systems Chemistry
2016 – 2018 Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie, Freising
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. rer. nat. (2016) Technical University of Munich, Freising
2011 – 2016 Technical University of Munich, Freising
Ph.D. student at Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie, Freising
Diploma Brau- und Getränketechnologie (2011) Technical University of Munich, Freising
2018 - current Officer for Security
2017 - current Head of Subunit Technology Ressort 1
2016 – current Supervision of 2 Diploma students, 6 Master students, 3 Bachelor students, Hochschule Niederrhein - University of Applied Sciences & Technical University of Munich

(See ORCID for complete list)

Féchir M, Reglitz K, Mall V, Voigt J, Steinhaus M (2021) J Agric Food Chem, 69(29):8190-8199, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c01846. Molecular Insights into the contribution of specialty barley malts to the aroma of bottom-fermented lager beers.

Reglitz K, Steinhaus M (2017) J Agric Food Chem 65: 2364-2372. Quantitation of 4-methyl-4-sulfanylpentan-2-one (4MSP) in hops by a stable isotope dilution assay in combination with GC×GCTOFMS: method development and application to study the influence of variety, provenance, harvest year, and processing on 4MSP concentrations.

Reglitz K, Steinhaus M (2018) In: Flavour Science. Proceedings of the XV Weurman Flavour Research Symposium, 18.-22. September 2017, Graz University of Technology, Austria. Siegmund, B.; Leitner, E. (Eds.). Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz, 2018, pp. 389-392. Key odorants in the artificial leather of car interiors.

Reglitz K, Lemke N, Hanke S, Steinhaus M (2018) Brew Sci 71: 96-99. On the behavior of the important hop odorant 4-mercapto-4-methylpentan-2-one (4MMP) during dry hopping and during storage of dry hopped beer.

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