Prof. Dr. Thomas Hofmann
administrative leave, TUM presidency
Lise-Meitner-Str. 34
85354 Freising, Germany
Tel.: +49 8161 71 2902
Fax: +49 8161 71 2949
Professional and Academic Training
1996 – 1998 |
Habilitation (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) and Venia Legendi in Food Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, TU Munich, Germany: “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”. |
| 1993 – 1995 | Doctorate (Ph.D., Dr. rer. nat.), Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany: “Characterization of intense odorants in carbohydrate/cysteine model mixtures and clarification of their formation pathways”. |
| 1988 – 1992 | Study of Food Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany. |
Professional Affiliations and Scientific Career
since Oct. 2019 |
President of the Technical University of Munich |
| 2017 – 2019 | Director of the Leibniz-Institut für Lebensmittel-Systembiologie an der Technischen Universität München, member of the Leibniz Association |
| 2016 – 2018 | Senior Visiting Professorship at Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 2015 – 2019 | Co-Director of the Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (BayBioMS), Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
| 2014 | Offer of a SFI Research Professorship at the University College Cork, Ireland (declined). |
| 2014 | Offer of a Full Professorship for Food Chemistry at the University of Turku, Finland (declined). |
| 2009 – 2019 | Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
| 2007 – 2014 | Head of the Bioanalytics unit of the Integrative Research Center of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
| since 2007 | Full professor (W3) and chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science, Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
| 2006 | Offer of a full professorship (W3) for Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science at the Technical University of Munich, Germany (accepted). |
| 2006 | Offer of a full professorship for Food Biochemistry at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland (declined). |
| 2002 – 2006 | Full professor (C4) and director of the Institute for Food Chemistry, University of Muenster, Germany. |
| 2002 | Offer of a full professorship (C4) for Food Chemistry at the University of Halle, Germany (declined). |
| 2002 | Offer of a full professorship (C4) for Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany (declined). |
| 2001 | Offer of a professorship and of the director position at the Institute for Chemistry and Technology at the Bundesanstalt für Milchforschung, Kiel, Germany (declined). |
| 1999 – 2002 | Assistant director, German Research Centre for Food Chemistry (DFA), Garching, Germany. |
| 1999 – 2002 | Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Food Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
Comissions of Trust
since 2016 |
Member for the accreditation commission of the MSc study program “Food Chemistry” at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (AQAS e.V.). |
| since 2015 | Review panel member of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW, Vienna, Austria) for the evaluation of Austrian research infrastructures. |
| since 2013 | Chair of the TUM Appointment and Tenure Board, Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
| since 2013 | Evaluation Panel Member of the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF). |
| since 2011 | European Research Council Referee of the ERC Executive Agency. |
| since 2011 | Review panel member of the Federal Ministery of Education and Research (BMBF). |
| since 2011 | Scientific reviewer of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. |
| since 2005 | Scientific reviewer of the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
| since 2001 | Scientific committee member of the Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e.V. (FEI). |
Editorial Leadership
since 2015 |
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, American Chemical Society. |
| since 2009 | Editorial Board member of the journal Chemosensory Perception. |
| 2007 – 2009 | Executive Editorial Board member of the journal Chemosensory Perception. |
| 2005 – 2014 | Advisory Board member of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, American Chemical Society. |
| since 2004 | Editorial Board member of the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. |
| 2004 – 2014 | Editor-in-Chief of the journal European Food Research & Technology. |
| 2002 – 2004 | Editorial Board member of the journal European Food Research & Technology. |
Other Activities in the Academic Community and Scientific Societies
2017 |
Coordinator of the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) EIT FOOD, European Institute of Technology (EIT). |
| 2015 – 2016 | Chairman of the European Consortium FoodConnects preparing a KIC Food4Future proposal for the EIT FOOD Call (Horizon 2020). |
| since 2015 | Member of the ZIEL – Institute for Food and Health, Technical University of Munich, Germany. |
| 2006 – 2008 | Vice spokesman of the International Research Training Group Münster/Germany - Nagoya/Japan of the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
| 2005 – 2010 | Member of the Senate Commission on Food Safety (SKLM) of the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
| 2003 – 2007 | Member of the International Graduate School of Chemistry (GSC), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Muenster, Germany. |
| 2003 – 2006 | Management Committee member of the European COST-Action 927 “Thermally processed food: potential health implications“. |
| since 2000 | Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS). |
| 1999 – 2004 | Head of the working group “Spectroscopic structure elucidation “of the European COST Action 919. |
| since 1993 | Member of the German Chemical Society (GDCH). |
Other Measures of Esteem
since 2017 |
Director in the Supervisory Board of the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) EIT FOOD. |
| since 2015 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried/Munich, Germany. |
| since 2013 | Chair of the Education and Science Committee of the Economic Advisory Counsil of Bavaria. |
| since 2011 | Member of the Governing Board of TUM CREATE Ltd., Singapore. |
| since 2011 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany. |
| since 2010 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Medical and Health Services of the Federal Ministry of Defence, Berlin, Germany. |
Fellowships and Awards
| 2016 | Otto-von-Guericke Award, German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF), Germany. |
| 2015 | Eric Kneen Memorial Award, American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC), USA. |
| 2014 | Advancement in the Application of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Award, American Chemical Society (ACS), San Francisco, USA. |
| 2013 | Research Article of the Year Award 2013, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS), USA. |
| 2008 | Fellow Award of the Agricultural & Food Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society (ACS), USA. |
| 2006 | Top-3 winner in the academic inventor’s competition of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. |
| 2003 | Research Transfer Award, University of Muenster, Germany. |
| 2003 | Golden Brendel Best Teaching Award, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Muenster, Germany. |
| 2002 | Firmenich Flavour and Fragrance Science Award, Weurman Symposium, Beaune, France. |
| 1999 | Young Scientist Award of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society (ACS), USA. |
| 1999 | Kurt-Täufel Award of the Young Scientist, German Chemical Society (GDCH), Germany. |
| 1996 | Award of the Fond of the Chemical Industry (FCI), Germany. |