The Professorship for Functional Phytometabolomics at the TUM School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) comprises international research teams with the following focus areas:

PHYTOMETABOLOMICS | Molecular and functional mapping of the metabolic response of food plants on abiotic and biotic stress conditions.

PLANT STRESS AND FLAVOR | Characterization of flavor alterations in crops caused by abiotic and biotic stress challenges, as well as by beneficial fungi

FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOACTIVES | Activity-guided identification and characterization of bioactive phytochemicals in microorganisms, crops, and model plants.

NUTRITIONAL METABOLOMICS | Human metabolism of biofunctional food ingredients using metabolomics profiling and molecular definition of nutritive biomarker profiles.

Since its inception in 2023, the Professorship has been headed by Prof. Dr. Corinna Dawid, who is also Co-Director of the Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (BayBioMS) and Deputy Director of the ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health.