Michael Petz

Michael Petz (born April 24, 1948 in Coburg ) is a German university professor emeritus and food chemist .

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Michael Petz was born on April 24, 1948, the son of the textile retailer Peter Petz and his wife Ursula. He completed his school education in 1968 with the Abitur at the Ernestinum Coburg and subsequently completed a pharmaceutical internship at the Coburg City Pharmacy for three months and was then corrector for the Coburger Tageblatt until the 1969 summer semester . In the summer semester of 1969 he began studying food chemistry under Professors Dann and Thier at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . In 1974 he finished his studies and in the following year 1975 he did an internship at the State Investigation Office for Health Care North Bavaria , based in Regensburg , where he worked in the chemistry department. He then began his doctoral studies in 1976 with Hans-Peter Thier at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where Ludwig Acker was head of the institute. On 6 December 1979, the promotion took place in Food Chemistry to Dr. rer. nat. ; Petz's dissertation , which was rated magna cum laude , was entitled gas chromatographic analysis method for the coccidiostatic agent amprolium and its residue behavior in chicken and eggs . His minor subjects were microbiology under Hans-Jürgen Rehm and biochemistry under Professor Herbert Witzel .

From 1979 to 1988 Petz was a research assistant at the Institute for Food Chemistry at the University of Münster. Furthermore, between May and December 1984 he was a postdoc at the Wallaceville Research Center of the Ministry for Primary Industries in Wallaceville near Upper Hutt , where he did research on the analysis of macrolide antibiotics in food of animal origin at the invitation of the New Zealand government . In 1987 , Petz completed his habilitation in the chemistry department at the University of Münster with a license to teach in the field of food chemistry; the subject of his paper was the development of a multi-method for the determination of residues of antibiotic substances in food . In 1988 his time as a research assistant ended when he took over the professorship for food chemistry at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal that year. Also in that year the marriage with the psychologist Regine Albers-Petz took place, as well as the birth of the first daughter together; in 1993 the second daughter was born. After only one year of substitution, in the following year 1989 Petz took over a full professorship as university professor (C 4) for food chemistry at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, where he also acted as chairman of the examination board for the first state examination for food chemists. Until his retirement in 2013, Petz held the chair for food chemistry at the university in question. He was also a member of the chemistry faculty council from 1989 to 2005, dean (and vice dean) of the chemistry faculty from 1997 to 2001, member of the senate from 2002 to 2005, and of the rectorate's committee for structure and finance from 2002 to 2008.

His areas of scientific interest include the development of analytical methods for the identification and quantitative determination of veterinary drug residues in food by means of instrumental-analytical, immunochemical and biosensory processes, the studies of the distribution, excretion and metabolism behavior of veterinary drugs after treatment of food-producing animals, as well as studies on stability and the degradation behavior of residue individuals in food depending on storage and treatment. Furthermore, Petz carried out studies on the analysis and biosynthesis of capsaicinoids and their precursors as well as their distribution and behavior in fresh and processed capsicum fruits (paprika, chilli) and was interested in the characterization of chilli varieties in terms of their ingredients.

From 1984 until his retirement in 2013, Petz was a member of the GDCh working group on pharmacologically active substances . As the founding chairman, he was entrusted with setting up and leading the said working group from 1984 to 1996 and also did valuable work in the planning and implementation of method validations and laboratory comparison tests, as well as in the organization of advanced training events. In addition, he was a member of the commissions (according to formerly § 35 LMBG ) Veterinary drug residues in food and inhibitors in milk - chemical methods (1990 to 2003) at the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety , which in turn emerged from the Federal Institute for Consumer Health Protection and Veterinary Medicine . From 1986 to 1995, Petz was a delegate of the GDCh to the German government delegation to the Codex Alimentarius committee Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods of the WHO and the FAO in Washington, DC . From 1990 he was repeatedly appointed to the expert commission for the veterinary medicine sector (commission F) by the Federal Minister of Health . From 1998 to 2003 Petz was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Institute for Consumer Health Protection and Veterinary Medicine, and from 2003 to 2008 he was chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association of the Food Chemical Society.

Partly parallel to this, he was a member of the Scientific Presidium of the German Nutrition Society from 2005 to 2013 . For the meeting periods from 2008 to 2010 and 2011 to 2013, Petz was appointed a full member of the BfR Commission for Pharmacologically Active Substances and Veterinary Medicinal Products. Petz carried out advanced training events for residue analysis (GDCh practical courses, workshops and information days, as well as Behr’s seminars) and in 1990 was a founding member of the scientific committee of the international conference EuroResidue , an annual conference on residues of veterinary drugs in food, which he held until 2008 Member belonged to. In addition Petz member of the editorial board was ( Engl. : Editorial board ) of the journal European Food Research and Technology , as well as reviewer for several other international journals. In addition, from 1996 to 1999 he acted as an expert reviewer for the field of food chemistry at the German Research Foundation (DFG); Before that, he was a substitute assessor from 1991 to 1995. In addition to the DFG, Petz also worked as a reviewer for the German Science Council.

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Michael Petz was awarded various prizes throughout his life. This includes the Kurt Täufel Prize , also known as the Young Scientist Prize , which was awarded to him in 1986 by the " Food Chemistry Society - Section of the Society of German Chemists for the Promotion of the Scientific, Technical, Food Law and Professional Interests of Food Chemists" at the German Food Chemists' Day in Würzburg was awarded. In 1996, Petz received the Heinrich Stockmeyer Foundation's sponsorship award for rapid methods for determining health-endangering components in food and was also awarded the Adolf Juckenack Medal of the Food Chemistry Society at the German Food Chemists' Day in Münster in 2012.

Web links

• Michael Petz on the official website of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (including further links)