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  • Rolighedsvej 26

    1958 Frederiksberg C

  • Source: Scopus
1984 …2023

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Primary fields of research

  • Food- and waterborne bacteria important for human health or food quality.
  • Microbial ecology of foods.
  • Predicting the growth, stress response and survival of microorganisms.
  • Cross-resistance phenomena in foodborne bacteria and the implications for food preservation.
  • Interactions between starter cultures and foodborne pathogens.
  • Food preservation technologies, HACCP and risk assessment.
  • Use of genomics, proteomics and metabolomics for the study of physiological responses to preservation.
  • Developments in hygiene and sanitation in the food and health sector.
  • Biofilm and adhesion mechanisms.
  • Hygiene and disinfection in food production and food service.
  • Hygienic reuse of water.

Teaching

 

Lecturing on pathogens and spoilage microorganisms in food processing in several master level courses 

Short presentation

Professor, Food Microbiology, Fermentation and Gut Health 

CV

2015-18                   Professor II at Norwegian University for Science

                               and Technology,Trondheim

2010-                       Professor and Section Head (until 2024), Food Microbiology,

Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

2003                        Professor with special assignment in microbial food safety

2002-3                    Initiator and head of LMC research school “FOOD”

1991                       Associate professor (Food Preservation Microbiology), Dept.

Dairy & Food Science,  Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark

1989-91                  Senior researcher. Water Quality Institute.

1984-89                  Senior researcher. Danish Institute for Fisheries Research

1982-84                  Visiting scholar, Osaka University, Japan

(Awarded Monbusho Scholarship).

1981-82                  Research Associate. Danish Institute for Fisheries Research

Other activities

Co-founder and Chairman of the organisation Council for Better Hygiene (from 2008). The council has approx. +800 members from academia, companies, municipalities and unions in Denmark and Sweden and has arranged >30 meetings for >2000 participants.

Member of the Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) 

Member of the Danish Gastronomical Academy

 

Communication activities to the broader public

2-5 annual lectures/speeches at national meetings

> 25 TV/radio appearances and 120 newspaper/journal citations

Has been part of the science panel in Ingeniøren as well as Samvirke   

 

Keywords

  • Bacteria in food
  • Campylobacter
  • Food processing
  • Food borne disease
  • Food quality
  • Food keeping qualities
  • Listeria
  • Molecular gastronomy
  • Raw produce quality and perishability
  • Disease inducing bacteria
  • ???Transcriptomics???
  • Water and health
  • Water purification
  • Faculty of Science
  • food microbiology
  • food safety
  • food preservation
  • water reuse
  • Listeria
  • microbial biofilm
  • hygiene
  • sanitation
  • microbial interactions
  • bacteriocins
  • survival of bacteria
  • Bioprotective cultures
  • Consumer hygiene

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