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Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer

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Director of the Hamburg School of Food Science and of the Institute for Food Chemistry

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Address

University of Hamburg
Department of Chemistry
Institute of Food Chemistry
Research Group Fischer
Grindelallee 117
20146 Hamburg

Office

Room: 651

Office hours

Appointment via Mrs. Nagel, Room 652,
gd-lc.chemie@uni-hamburg.de

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-4359/7
Fax: +49 40 42838-4342
ORCID: 0000-0001-7243-4199

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“

CV

Qualification and professional career

Professional employment and academic education:

Since 2006 Professor (W3), Institute of Food Chemistry at University of Hamburg
2002 - 2006 Guest lecturer (Biomedicine) at the German Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Industrial Chemistry, Singapore
2003 - 2006 Assistant Professor (C2) at the TU Munich
2003 Habilitation in Food Chemistry and Biochemistry, TU Munich
1998 - 2003 Assistant Professor (C1) at the TU Munich
1996 - 1997 State Board in Food Chemistry, Part II, State investigation office for the Public Health, Erlangen
1997 PhD in Biochemistry, TU Munich (summa cum laude)
1987 - 1991 State Board in Food Chemistry, Part I, TU Munich

Honours:

2014 Phoenix Pharmazie Wissenschaftspreis
2004 Kurt-Täufel Preis des Jungen Wissenschaftlers, GERMAN SOCIETY OF FOOD CHEMISTRY (LChG)

Selected professional activities and memberships:

2025 Member of the MONITORING GROUP, GDCh, Frankfurt a.M.
2025 Advisory Board CHEMFOODCHEM of Wiley-VCH, Weinheim
2022 - 2024 Head of the DEPARTMENT of CHEMISTRY, University of Hamburg
2022 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the FOOD FEDERATION GERMANY
2020 - 2022 Deputy head of the DEPARTMENT of CHEMISTRY, University of Hamburg
2019 Spokesperson: Research Area ARTEFACT PROFILING in the CLUSTER of EXCELLENCE "Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures" (https://www.written-artefacts.uni-hamburg.de), University of Hamburg
2018 Vicepresident: International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (IAEAC, https://iaeac.com), Lausanne, Switzerland
Since 2016 Chairman: COMPETENCE NETWORK FOOD PROFILING (CNFP, www.food-profiling.org), University of Hamburg
2014 - 2019 Board Member: GERMAN SOCIETY of FOOD CHEMISTRY (LChG) and Chairman of the subdivision ‘University Teaching’, Frankfurt a.M.
Since 2011 Founder & Chairman: HAMBURG SCHOOL OF FOOD SCIENCE (HSFS), University of Hamburg
Since 2011 Scientific advisory councils: GERMAN FEDERATION for FOOD LAW and FOOD SCIENCE (BLL), Berlin; FEDERAL INSTITUTE for RISK ASSESSMENT (BfR), Berlin; RESEARCH ASSOCIATION of the GERMAN FOOD INDUSTRY (FEI), Bonn
Since 2010 Founder & Chairman: FOOD & HEALTH ACADEMY, University of Hamburg
Since 2008 Scientific Board: ‘CHEMIE IN UNSERER ZEIT‘, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim
2008 - 2020 German Representative: EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION for CHEMICAL and MOLECULAR SCIENCES (EuCheMS) – Division of Food Chemistry
Since 2006 Director of the INSTITUTE OF FOOD CHEMISTRY, University of Hamburg

Publications

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