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, on impurity and contaminant analysis, and on developing analytics and diagnostics in networked and intelligent systems 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
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, on impurity and contaminant analysis, and on developing analytics and diagnostics in networked and intelligent systems 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
Consumer-oriented research
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