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

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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