Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Tuba Esatbeyoglu

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Tuba Esatbeyoglu
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Am Kleinen Felde 30
30167 Hannover
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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Tuba Esatbeyoglu
Address
Am Kleinen Felde 30
30167 Hannover
Building
Room
134
Positions
Executive Director
Institute of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Representatives for Professors
Examination Board, Food Research and Development (M.Sc.)
Representatives for Professors
Curriculum and Teaching Committee, Food Science (BSc / MEd)
Professors
Institute of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Professors
Molecular Food Chemistry and Food Development

Research areas

  • Secondary plant metabolites
  • Utilization of by-products of the food industry (animal nutrition, new foods)
  • HPLC method development and validation
  • Semisynthesis of proanthocyanidins
  • Investigation of stability during processing and storage
  • Authenticity marker
  • Activity-guided fractionation
  • In vitro biological activity (structure-activity relationship)
  • In vitro toxicity (cytotoxicity, mutagenicity, genotoxicity)
  • Sensory analysis
  • Microbiological safety
  • Bioaccessibility

Curriculum vitae

  • Professional background

    Since 2023    W3 Professor of Molecular Food Chemistry and Development at the Institute of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Head of the Institute of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Leibniz Universität Hannover

    11/2023    W3 call to the Chair of Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig rejected

    06/2023    W3 call for the chair of Food Chemistry at the University of Potsdam rejected

    02/2023   Received W3 call to the chair of Food Chemistry at the University of Potsdam

    07/2022 – 08/2022: Visiting professor at The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Brisbane/Australia

    2019 - 2023: Professor for Food Development and Food Quality, Head of Institute of Food science and human Nutrition at the Leibniz University Hannover

    2018-2016: Research associate at the Institute of Safety and Quality of Fruits and Vegetables of the Max Rubner Institute in Karlsruhe, Germany.

    2017-2010: Habilitation; awarded the teaching qualification for the subject "Food Science" by the Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel; title of the habilitation thesis:
    "Analytics, radical scavenging properties and gene regulatory activity of dyes and secondary plant compounds from roots".

    2015: Research stay in the Netherlands; Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) at the Institute of Food Safety (RIKILT) in the field of Analytical Chemistry in cooperation with "Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)" Department of Environmental Systems Science.

    2010-2006: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Institute of Food Chemistry of the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany; title of the PhD thesis: "Analysis of value-added constituents of Aronia melanocarpa and characterization and isolation of proanthocyanidins" (ISBN-10: 3-86955-642-0); Grade: "with distinction (summa cum laude)".

    2006-2005: Practical training at the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (LAVES) to become a "state-certified food chemist"

    2005-2000: Studies of Food Chemistry at the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig