Prof. Thomas Hofmann
(Technische Universität München, Germany)

Thomas Hofmann studied food chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and received his PhD (1995) and habilitation (1998) at the Chemistry Department of the TU München (TUM). From 1999 to 2002, he was deputy director of the German Research Center for Food Chemistry of the Leibnitz Society. In 2002, he took over the Chair of Food Chemistry of the University of Münster, and since 2007 he holds the Chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science at TUM, is head of the Bioanalytics unit of the Center of Nutrition and Food Sciences of TUM, and since 2009 he is vice president for research and innovation of TUM. His scientific achievements are published in >300 papers and 40 patents, and is honored by several awards such as, e.g. Kurt-Täufel Award of the Young Scientist, German Chemical Society (1999), Young Scientist Award of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division, ACS (1999), the ACS Fellow Award of the Agricultural & Food Chemistry Division, ACS (2008), and the Advancement in the Application of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Award, ACS (2014).