Florian Kaltner

Education

  • 03/2016 – 05/2020 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Food Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany PhD thesis: Investigations on behaviour, occurrence and risk assessment of toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids in food and feed matrices. https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/?id=1534366
  • 10/2010 – 04/2015 State exam (equivalent to M.Sc.) in Food Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Career

  • 04/2021 – 12/2023 Postdoc Researcher at the Institute of Food Chemistry and Food Biotechnology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany
  • 06/2023 – 08/2023 Visiting Scientist at Wageningen Food Safety Research, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
  • 05/2019 – 03/2021 Deputy Head / Head of the Bioanalytics Group, Chair of Food Safety and Analytics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
  • 02/2019 – 04/2019 Visiting Scientist at RIKILT Food Safety Research Institute, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Awards

  • 2022 Joseph-Schormüller-Medal and Grant of the German Food Chemical Society (LChG)
  • 2017 Bruno-Roßmann-Prize of the German Food Chemical Society (LChG)

Publications

ORCID link https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-7461

Oral Presentations

  • 03/2024 The (in)stability of pyrrolizidine and tropane alkaloids during food storage and processing: An issue for food safety? Analytica Conference, Munich, Germany (invited)
  • 11/2023 Challenges in the analysis of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in foods. Advances in Food Safety Conference, Móstoles, Spain (invited)
  • 04/2019 Statuserhebung zur Belastung von Kräutern und Gewürzen mit Pyrrolizidinalkaloiden Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Bonn, Germany (invited)
  • 09/2017 Lagerstabilität toxischer Pyrrolizidinalkaloide in Lebens- und Futtermitteln, 46th German Food Chemistry Days, Würzburg, Germany

Science Communications