Sustainability Team
The sustainability team currently includes Marie Oest, Dr. Hauke Heller, Dr. Christian Wittenburg, Dr. Thomas Behrens, and Dr. Jennifer Menzel. Since 2026, Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer has been part of the team as the department’s Sustainability Officer.
The team is also supported by the University's Sustainability Office: Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Dr. Stefanie Reustlen and Uwe Lübbermann.

Photo: Markus Fischer
Director of the Hamburg School of Food Science and of the Institute for Food Chemistry
Institute of Food Chemistry
Research Group Fischer
Grindelallee 117
20146 Hamburg
Room: 651
Telephone: +49 40 42838-4359/7
Fax: +49 40 42838-4342
Office hours
Appointment via Mrs. Nagel, Room 652,
gd-lc.chemie@uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Authentication of raw food materials: Food Profiling (genome, metabolome and isotopolome analyses)
- Recording of nutritionally relevant metabolic parameters (Metabolic Profiling, Metabolic Targeting)
- Aptamer development
- Characterisation of bacterial metabolic pathways (vitamin B2, mevalonate-independent terpene biosynthesis)
- Authentication of artefacts within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence „Understanding Written Artefacts“
Fachbereichsreferent / Leitung Fachbereichsmanagement
Zentralbereich
Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: 5, ZBV

Photo: F. Ziemen
Leitung Massenspektrometrische Abteilung
wissenschaftlicher Service
Massenspektrometrie
Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6
Hamburg
Room: 435, OC
Telephone: +49 40 2395-22824

Photo: Marie Oest
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Institut für Lebensmittelchemie
AG Fischer
Grindelallee 117
20146 Hamburg
Room: 653
Telephone: +49 40 2395-29437
Email: marie.oest"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Photo: UHH/Wittenburg
Lecturer
Institut für Anorganische und Angewandte Chemie
AG Jacobi von Wangelin
Martin -Luther-King-Platz 6
20146 Hamburg
Room: 523, AC
Telephone: +49 40 2395-24095