Prof. Dr. Veronika Somoza
 Head of the working group "Physiological Effects of Food Ingredients" at the German Research Centre for Food Chemistry Professor for Food Bioactivity at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin, USA born September 25th, 1965, Braunschweig, Germany, married to Dr. Mark Somoza, Physicist, one daughter (born June 2006) |
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| Scientific Career | |||
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| 1985 | - | 1991 | Master's Degree (Dipl. oec. troph.), Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Germany, Institute of Nutritional Sciences |
| 1991 | - | 1995 | Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude), Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. I. Elmadfa, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1991 | - | 1996 | Research Associate, PhD Program, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 1996 | - | 2002 | Assistant Professor, Habilitation Program, Institute of Nutritional and Food Sciences, University of Kiel, Germany |
| 2001 | Post Doctoral Research, Advisor: Prof. Dr. J.W. Baynes, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry | ||
| 2002 |
Venia legendi for the subjects "Human Nutrition" and "Food Science" , Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany Venia docendi for the subjects: "Human Nutrition" and "Food Science", University of Kiel, Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences (resigned 20 |
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| 2003 | Venia docendi for the subject: "Food Science", Technical University Munich, Faculty of Chemistry | ||
| 2003 | - | 2007 | Vice Director, German Research Center for Food Chemistry, Garching, Germany |
| 2004 | Hans-Adolf Krebs Prize Awarded by the German Society of Nutrition | ||
| 2008 | - | Professor for Food Bioactivity, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
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| Memberships | |||
| Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society) - Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Ernährung (German Society of Nutrition) - American Chemical Society / Agricultural
and Food Division - European Academy of Nutritional Sciences (EANS). |
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| Reviewer for the Following Journals | |||
| Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry - Food Science and Technology - European
Food Research and Technology - Molecular Nutrition and Food Research - Annals of
Nutrition and Metabolism - European Journal of Nutrition - Lipids - Alimentary Pharmacology
and Therapeutics - Experimental Gerontology - Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry - Czech
Journal of Food Science - Biomembranes - Cereal Science. |
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| Member of the Editorial Board of the Following Journals | |||
| Molecular Nutrition and Food Research - Ernährung, Wissenschaft und Praxis.
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| General Research Interest | |||
| Application of activity guided screening techniques to complex food matrices and to isolated bioactive
food compounds by means of analytical, biochemical and molecular-biological methods in different test
systems (cell culture models, animal studies and human trials).
Chemical identification and characterization of bioactive food components and their metabolites by using various analytical techniques, e.g., GPC, HPLC-UV/DAD/fluorescence, GCMS/MS, LCMS/MS, NMR, Real Time PCR, 2D-Gelelectrophoresis, MALDI-TOF, flow-cytometry, and different cell culture models, e.g., buccal, stomach, intestinal, liver and kidney cells as well as stably transfected kidney cells. Investigations of the impact of technological parameters on food processing with regards to the physiological effectiveness of food ingredients. |
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