Lothar W. Kroh

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Lothar W. Kroh (born February 14, 1951 in Marienberg, Erzgeb. ) Is a German chemist and was Professor of Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin from 1993 to 2019 .

Life

Lothar W. Kroh studied chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1981 at Günter Westphal on a theme for the synthesis of N-glycosides of thiourea to Dr. rer. nat. He obtained his habilitation in 1986 with a thesis on the Maillard reaction . In 1988 he became a university lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 1993 he was appointed professor for food chemistry and analysis at the Technical University of Berlin .

In 2019, Kroh was awarded the Joseph König commemorative coin by the Society of German Chemists for his services to the promotion of food chemistry nationally and internationally as well as in recognition of his scientific activities.

Work

Kroh researches the molecular basis of color formation in food ( caramelization and Maillard reaction ) and the antioxidant properties of sugar breakdown products using electron spin resonance . In addition, he deals with structure-activity relationships of secondary plant substances such as polyphenols and glucosinolates .

Publications

Kroh published his research results in national and international scientific journals.

As an author and editor he worked for:

  • Rapid methods for assessing food and its raw materials , Behr's-Verlag, Hamburg (2004), ISBN 3-89947-120-2 , together with Werner Baltes;
  • Analysis of consumer goods , Behr's Verlag, Hamburg (2007) ISBN 978-3-89947-338-4 ;
  • Quality of Processed Plant Food, Optical Monitoring of Fresh and Processed Agricultural Crops - Basics and Applications for a better understanding of Non-Destructive Sensing , M. Zude (Ed.), CRC Press, Tayler & Francis Group, Boca Raton (2008) ISBN 1-4200-5402-3 , together with Sascha Rohn;
  • Applied instrumental food analysis , Behr's Verlag, Hamburg (2019) ISBN 978-3-95468-651-3 , together with Stephan Drusch and Reinhard Matissek.

Academic activities

Kroh is a member of the Presidium of the German Food Book Commission at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture and a member of the German National Committee of the ICUMSA.

For many years Kroh was the managing director of the Institute for Food Chemistry, which later became the Institute for Food Technology and Food Chemistry. From 2007 Kroh was Vice Dean and from 2009 to 2012 Dean of the Faculty of Process Sciences at the TU Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publications
personal data
SURNAME Kroh, Lothar W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and professor of food chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienberg , Ore Mountains