Veronika Somoza becomes the new director of Leibniz-LSB@TUM and of Nutritional Systems Biology at TUM. Image: Joseph Krpelan
Veronika Somoza will take on her new post as Scientific Director of the Executive Board of the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (Leibniz-LSB@TUM) as of November 1, 2019. She succeeds Prof. Thomas Hofmann, who is leaving the Leibniz-Institute, located in Freising, for his new position as President of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The position as Scientific Director of the Executive Board also entails the Professorship for Nutritional Systems Biology at the TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan's Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences. Before taking on her new position, Prof. Somoza, a native of Braunschweig, served in recent years as the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chair of the Department of Physiological Chemistry at the University of Vienna. Her research focused on the isolation, characterization, bioactivity and bio-availability of food ingredients and their effects on the human biosystem. "Professor Somoza joins us as an outstanding internationally recognized scientist and recipient of many awards. Her work connects the fields of nutritional, food and health research with one another.
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