Kurzprofil Prof. Dr. Veronika Somoza (Wissenschaftliche Direktorin)

Sprecherin der Sektion II &

Leiterin der Arbeitsgruppe Metabolic Function & Biosignals

Lise-Meitner-Str. 34
85354 Freising
Germany
Tel.: +49 8161 71-2700

Strukturelle und Funktionelle Charakterisierung von chemosensorisch-aktiven Lebensmittelinhaltsstoffen.

2003	venia docendi for the subject: ‘Food Science’
	Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Chemistry
2002	Habilitation
	venia legendi for the subjects ‘Human Nutrition’ and ‘Food Science’
	Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences,
	Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany
1991 - 1995	Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat., completed with honors - summa cum laude)
	Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria
1985 - 1991	Master’s Degree (Dipl. oec. troph.)
	Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Germany

Since 05/2020	Professor and Co-Chair
	Department of Physiological Chemistry,
	Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
Since 11/2019	Director
	of the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology
	at the Technical University of Munich
02/2011 – 05/2020	Professor and Chair
	Department of Physiological Chemistry,
	Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
10/2014 – 10/2019	Vice Dean
	Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
09/2011- 08/2018	Chair
	of the Christian Doppler Laboratory of Bioactive Aroma
	Compounds, University of Vienna, Austria
09/2009 – 01/2011	Professor and Chair
	Research Platform Molecular Food Science,
	University of Vienna, Austria
12/2008 – 12/2009	Executive Committee member
	Food Research Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
07/2007 - 08/2009	Associate Professor (tenured)
	Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin/ Madison, U.S.A.
2003 - 2010	Senior Scientist and group leader for “Bioactives”
	German Research Center for Food Chemistry, Garching, Germany
2003 - 2007	Vice Director
	German Research Center for Food Chemistry, Garching, Germany
2001	Post Doctoral Researcher
	Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry,
	University of South Carolina, Columbia, U.S.A.
1996 - 2002	Assistant Professor, Habilitation Program
	Institute of Nutritional and Food Sciences, University of Kiel, Germany
1991 - 1996	Research Associate, PhD Program
	Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria

2020	AGFD Fellow Award, Agricultural and Food Chemistry
2016	FEMA Excellence in Flavor Science Award by Flavor and Extract
	Manufacturers Association (FEMA) of the United States
2004	Hans-Adolf Krebs Prize Awarded by the German Nutrition Society

Since 2023	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Citizens' Assembly "Nutrition in Transition" of the German Bundestag
Since 2011	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Sparkling Science program funded by the
	Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
Since 2011	Associate Editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Since 2010	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research
	Association of the German Food Industry (FEI) funded by the
	German Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology
Since 2010	Executive Committee member of the Austrian Association of
	University Professors (UPV Austria)
Since 2010	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Institute of
	Human Nutrition (Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung), Potsdam Rehbrücke /D