Prof. Dr. Andrea Büttner
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Prof. Dr. Andrea Büttner

Chair of Aroma and Smell Research

Prof. Andrea Büttner has been Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV since April 2020. Since 2017, she has headed the Chair of Aroma and Smell Research at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg.

The current focus of her research is on improving and maintaining food and product quality. Also on impurity and contaminant analysis, and on developing analytics and diagnostics in networked and intelligent systems. This is to ensure the highest product quality and consumer acceptance. Andrea Büttner pays special attention to sustainable and resource-saving management as well as to product safety and consumer protection.

Product-oriented research

  • Aroma and non-food smell, characterization of odorants, precursor studies, development of optimization strategies
  • Flavor-development and optimization utilizing food technology processes
  • Food and packaging contaminants, development of novel analytical approaches for detection of contamination, spoilage and fraud
  • Contaminants in articles of daily use, development of novel analytical approaches for detection of contamination

Consumer-oriented research

  • Human sensory characterization of chemosensorially active substances, structure-odor activity relationships
  • Biotransformation, metabolism, and physiological effects of chemosensorially active substances on humans
  • In vivo flavor release and flavor perception, aroma-taste-food matrix interactions, interactions with other sensorymodalities
  • Aroma, smell, food and flavor conditioning, development of preferences, and psychological effects of chemosensorially active substances on humans

 

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