Veronika Somoza, o. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.

Scientific Career

since 05/2020: Deputy head of the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

since 11/2019: Head of the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich
Professorship for Nutritional Systems Biology at the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the Weihenstephan Science Center at TUM

02/2011 - 04/2020: Head and University Professor of the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

2011 - 2018: Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for bioactive Aromacompounds

09/2009 – 01/2011: Professor and Chair of the Research Platform Molecular Food Science, University of Vienna, Austria

Since 10/2008: Executive Committee member of the Food Research Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

07/2007 – 08/2009: Associate Professor (tenured) at the Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin/ Madison, U.S.A.

2003 - 2010: Senior Scientist and group leader for “Bioactives” at the German Research Center for Food Chemistry, Garching, Germany

2003 - 2007: Vice Director German Research Center for Food Chemistry, Garching, Germany

2001: Post Doctoral Research Advisor: Prof. Dr. J.W. Baynes, University of South Carolina, Columbia, U.S.A. Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry

1996 - 2002: Assistant Professor, Habilitation Program Institute of Nutritional and Food Sciences, University of Kiel, Germany

1991 - 1996: Research Associate, PhD Program Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria 

Education

2003: venia docendi for the subject: ‘Food Science’ Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Chemistry

2002: Habilitation Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. H.F. Erbersdobler venia legendi for the subjects ‘Human Nutrition’ and ‘Food Science’ Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany

1991 - 1995: Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat., completed with honors - summa cum laude) Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. I. Elmadfa Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria

1985 - 1991: Master’s Degree (Dipl. oec. troph.) Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Germany Institute of Nutritional Science

Most important academic prizes/awards received

AGFD Fellow Award 2020

FEMA Excellence in Flavor Science Award 2016 - Awareded by Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) of the United States

Hans-Adolf Krebs Prize 2004 - Awarded by the German Nutrition Society