Gesine Schmidt

I am a principal engineer in the department for Food and Health. Our aim is to help food producers develop nutritious, tasty food through optimal processing and storage of raw materials and products. My tasks include chemical analyses of bioactive plant metabolites, to determine how they change by variety, harvesting, storage and processing. Research on the relationship between plant metabolites and flavour/aroma is also one of my main interests. For these analyses I mainly use instrumental and statistical methods within analytical chemistry, especially metabolomics, various extraction methods, liquid and gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry, as well as imaging methods like MALDI-MS to localize plant metabolites in different tissues. I am also responsible for method development and validation. I hold a diploma degree (correspondent MSc) in marine environmental sciences from the University of Oldenburg, Germany (2005) and a doctoral degree in natural sciences with specialization in analytical chemistry at the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany (2010).

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