Professor Jan Frank, Ph.D.

Education

August 2004-Ph.D. in Food Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden

September 2000-Diploma (“Master of Science”) in Human Nutrition and Home Economics (“Diplom Oecotrophologe”), Bonn University, Germany


Professional experience

October 2023 - present - Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany

April 2018 - September 2023 - Vice Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany

September 2013 - present - Professor, Department of Food Biofunctionality, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany

September 2012 - August 2013 - Professor of Human Metabolomics, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Bonn, Germany

September 2009 - August 2012 - Group Leader (Bioavailability and Bioactivity of Micronutrients),Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany

June 2006 -Guest researcher, School of Biomedical and MolecularSciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

March - May 2006 - Guest researcher, Hugh Sinclair Human Nutrition Group, School of Food Biosciences, University of Reading, UK

March 2005 - August 2009 - Senior Researcher, Institute of Human Nutrition and Food Science, Christian Albrechts University (CAU), Kiel, Germany

August 2004 - February 2005 - Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Food Science,  SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

May - September 2003 - Collaborative research with Prof. Traber at the LinusPauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

February 2001 - July 2004 - Ph.D. student, Department of Food Science, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

October 2000 - January 2001 - Guest researcher, Department of Food Science, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

July 1997 - September 1998 - Guest student, research project at the Department of Food Science, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

October 1993 - September 2000 - Student of Human Nutrition and Home Economics (“Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften”) at the University of Bonn, Germany

Editorial activities

NFS Journal (Elsevier)

Editor-in-Chief since 2015

PharmaNutrition (Elsevier)

Member of the editorial board since 2016



The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry (Elsevier)

Member of the editorial board since 2014

Nutrition (Elsevier)

Associate Editor Micronutrients (previously Co-Regional Editor Europe) since 2012

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition (Springer)

Associate Editor since 2019, member of the editorial boardsince 2011

Affiliations

Society of Nutrition and Food Science

Since 2013; Founding President


Global Phytonutrient Society (GPS)

Since 2016; Member of the steering committee


Food Security Center

Since 2011, Vice Director since 2017, Director since 2021


Gesellschaft für angewandte Vitaminforschung e.V.

Since 2009, Member of the Board of Directors 2012-2019


Society for Free Radical Research - Europe

Since 2009


Universitätsbund Hohenheim e.V.

Since 2009


Oxygen Club of California

Since 2002


Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e.V. (German Nutrition Society)

Since 1996


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