Associate Professor
University of Vienna, Physiological Chemistry
Wien, Wien, Austria
Marc Pignitter received his doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Graz, Austria. He completed postdoctoral stays at the University of Vienna, Austria, and in industry. He was a research associate at the National Biomedical EPR Center and the Free Radical Research Center at the Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, USA. Another research stay took him to Australia, where he joined the group in Adelaide at Metabolomics Australia and participated in the Australian Endeavour Leadership Program. In 2017, he took up a tenure-track position at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry at the University of Vienna and established his own research group. In 2021, he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at the same institution.
Marc Pignitter received several international awards from the German Society for Fat Science (DGF), the Australian Government, and the American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS), among others.
His research interests focus on the application of innovative approaches and technologies to control and better understand lipid oxidation in food and its health effects.
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Sustainable food packaging to combat lipid oxidation in edible oils
Monday, May 1, 2023
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM MDT