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Chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science
Lise-Meitner-Straße 34
D-85354 Freising
Phone: +49(0)8161/ 71 - 2902
Fax: +49(0)8161/ 71 - 2949
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hofmann
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hofmann
Lise-Meitner-Str. 34
85350 Freising
Tel.: 08161/ 71 - 2902
Fax: 08161/ 71 - 2949
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Curriculum Vitae
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1968 |
Born in Coburg, Germany |
1988-1992 |
Studies in Food Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany |
1993-1995 |
Doctoral dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Faculty of Chemistry, Technische Universität München: “Characterization of intense odorants in carbohydrate/ cysteine model mixtures and clarification of their formation pathways” |
1996-1998 |
Habilitation (Dr. rer. nat. Dr. rer. nat. habil) in Chemistry, Technische Universität München: “Characterization of non-enzymatic products formed from carbohydrates, amino acids and proteins – Studies on ionic and radical reaction pathways leading to non-enzymatic food browning” |
1999-2002 |
Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Food Chemistry at the Technische Universität München, Germany |
1999-2002 |
Deputy director of the German Research Centre for Food Chemistry (DFA), Garching, Germany |
1999-2002 |
Deputy director of the Kurt-Hess Institute for Flour & Protein Research, Garching, Germany |
2001 |
Offer of a professorship and of the director position at the Institute for Chemistry and Technology at the Bundesanstalt für Milchforschung, Kiel, declined |
2002 |
Offer of the position of a full professor for Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin, declined |
2002-2006 |
Full professor (C4) and director of the Institute for Food Chemistry, University of Muenster, Germany |
2006 |
Offer of the position of a full professor for Food Biochemistry at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, declined |
since 2007 |
Full professor (W3) and chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science, Technische Universität München |
since 2007 |
Head of the BIOANALYTICS unit of the Integrative Research Center of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technische Universität München |
since 2009 |
Vice President for Research and Entrepreneurship of the Technische Universität München |
Selected Memberships
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since 1993 |
Member of the German Chemical Society (GDCH) |
since 1999 |
Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) |
since 2001 |
Scientific committee member of the Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e.V. |
2003 - 2007 |
Member of the Management Committee of the EU-COST-Action 927 “Thermally processed food: potential health implications“ |
2003 - 2007 |
Member of the International Graduate School of Chemistry, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
since 2003 |
Editor-in-Chief of the journal European Food Research & Technology |
since 2004 |
Editorial Board member of the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research |
since 2005 |
Advisory Board member of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry |
2006 – 2008 |
Vice spokesman of the International Research Training Group Münster/Germany - Nagoya/Japan der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
since 2009 |
Executive Editorial Board member of the journal Chemosensory Perception |
2005-2011 |
Member of the Senate Commission on Food Safety (SKLM) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
since 2010 |
Member of the scientific advisory board of the medical and health services of the German Federal Ministery of Defence |
since 2011 |
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry |
since 2011 |
Member of the Governing Board of TUM CREATE Ltd., Singapure |
since 2011 |
Scientific referee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
since 2011 |
European Research Council Referee of the ERC Executive Agency |
Selected Honors, Awards
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1996 |
Award of the Fond of the German Chemical Industry |
1999 |
Kurt-Täufel Award of the Young Scientist, German Chemical Society (GDCH), Germany |
1999 |
Young Scientist Award of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society (ACS), USA |
2002 |
Firmenich Flavour and Fragrance Science Award, France |
2003 |
Golden Brendel Award for the lecture evaluated with the highest scores at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Münster, Germany |
2004 |
Research Transfer Award of the University of Münster for the successful transfer of a novel technology into the industrial research of Nestle, Lausanne, Switzerland |
2006 |
Winner 3. Place in the academic inventor’s competition of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany |
2008 |
Fellow Award of the Agricultural & Food Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), USA. |