The chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science at the Technische Universität München (TUM) comprises international research teams with the following focus areas:
- SENSOMICS | Structural decoding and functional reconstruction of chemosensory signatures of foods and beverages.
- BIOACTIVES | Activity-guided discovery of bioactive natural products in foods und complex biological systems.
- NUTRITIONAL METABOLOMICS | Human metabolism of biofunctional food ingredients using metabolomics profiling and molecular definition of nutritive biomarker profiles.
- PHYTOMETABOLOMICS | Molecular and functional mapping of the metabolic response of food plants on abiotic and biotic stress conditions.
- WATER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING | Process development for water treatment and infrastructure- and process-oriented management of energy and material flow in the food and beverage industry.
Since its inception in 2007, the group is headed by Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Hofmann who is President of the Technical University of Munich since 2019. Provisional head of the chair is Prof. Dr. Corinna Dawid, who is also co-director of the Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (BayBioMS).
Toolbox
Die Forschung am Lehrstuhl nutzt modernste Methoden der Naturstoffanalytik, humaner psychophysikalischer Techniken, Metabolomik und Bioinformatik und kombiniert diese mit langjähriger Expertise zu einer Kompetenzplattform mit internationaler Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.
Education
Food Chemistry is a highly interdisciplinary field of chemistry which on the basis of fundamental molecular knowledge delivers key competences to address challenges in the fields of nutrition, food toxicology, food microbiology, and food technology.
Publications
Ranner, Josef L.; Schalk, Sabrina; Martyniak, Cindy; Parniske, Martin; Gutjahr, Caroline; Stark, Timo D.; Dawid, Corinna.Primary and Secondary Metabolites in Lotus japonicus. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2023-07, doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.3c02709.
Engelhardt, Max; Böger, Thomas; Gigl, Michael; Meng, Chen; Soprunyuk, Viktor; Schranz, Wilfried; Richter, Klaus; Sánchez-Ferrer, Antoni. Interactions of hydrophilic birch wood (Betula pendula Roth) extractives with adhesives for load-bearing timber structures. International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives y 2023, 125, 103447. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijadhadh.2023.103447.
Gabler, Anna Maria; Ludwig, Annalena; Frank, Oliver; Dawid, Corinna. NMR-Based Tastant Polymer Interaction Studies and the Influence on the Taste Perception of Red Wine. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistr 2023, 13, 477. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.3c04021.