Technische Universität München

Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann

Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation

1968

Born in Coburg, Germany

1988 - 1992

Studies in Food Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

1993 - 1995

Doctoral dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Faculty of Chemistry, Technische Universität München: “Characterization of intense odorants in carbohydrate/ cysteine model mixtures and clarification of their formation pathways”

1996 - 1998

Habilitation (Dr. rer. nat. Dr. rer. nat. habil) in Chemistry, Technische Universität München: “Characterization of non-enzymatic products formed from carbohydrates, amino acids and proteins – Studies on ionic and radical reaction pathways leading to non-enzymatic food browning”

1999 - 2002

Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Food Chemistry at the Technische Universität München, Germany

Deputy director of the German Research Centre for Food Chemistry (DFA), Garching, Germany

Deputy director of the Kurt-Hess Institute for Flour & Protein Research, Garching, Germany

2001

Offer of a professorship and of the director position at the Institute for Chemistry and Technology at the Bundesanstalt für Milchforschung, Kiel, declined

2002

Offer of the position of a full professor for Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin, declined

2002 - 2006

Full professor (C4) and director of the Institute for Food Chemistry, University of Muenster, Germany

2006

Offer of the position of a full professor for Food Biochemistry at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, declined

since 2007

Full professor and chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science at the Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Germany

since 2007

Head of the BIOANALYTICS unit of the Center of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the Technische Universität München

since 2009

Vice President for Research and Entrepreneurship of the Technische Universität München

since 1993

Member of the German Chemical Society (GDCH)

since 1999

Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS)

since 2001

Scientific committee member of the Forschungskreis der Ernährungsindustrie e.V.

2003 - 2007

Member of the Management Committee of the EU-COST-Action 927 “Thermally processed food: potential health implications“

Member of the International Graduate School of Chemistry, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster

since 2003

Editor-in-Chief of the journal European Food Research & Technology

since 2004

Editorial Board member of the journal Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

since 2005

Advisory Board member of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

2006-2008

Vice spokesman of the International Research Training Group Münster/Germany - Nagoya/Japan der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

since 2009

Executive Editorial Board member of the journal Chemosensory Perception

2005-2011

Member of the Senate Commission on Food Safety (SKLM) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

since 2010

Member of the scientific advisory board of the medical and health services of the German Federal Ministery of Defence

seit 2011

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

Member of the Governing Board of TUM CREATE Ltd., Singapore

Scientific referee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

European Research Council Referee of the ERC Executive Agency

1996

Award of the Fond of the German Chemical Industry

1999

Kurt-Täufel Award of the Young Scientist, German Chemical Society (GDCH), Germany

Young Scientist Award of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society (ACS), USA

2002

Firmenich Flavour and Fragrance Science Award, France

2003

Golden Brendel Award for the lecture evaluated with the highest scores at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Münster, Germany

2004

Research Transfer Award of the University of Münster for the successful transfer of a novel technology into the industrial research of Nestle, Lausanne, Switzerland

2006

Winner 3. Place in the academic inventor’s competition of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

2008

Fellow Award of the Agricultural & Food Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), USA.