Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jana Raupbach awarded the Werner Baltes Prize

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jana Raupbach. Photo credits: Asmik Kostandian/TU Braunschweig

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jana Raupbach, junior professor of food toxicology, was awarded the 2025 Werner Baltes Prize at the 53rd Food Chemistry Conference in Halle (Saale). The prize is awarded annually by the Food Chemistry Society (LChG), a specialist group of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), and is endowed with 2,000 euros. The prize recognises outstanding scientific achievements by young researchers. Raupbach receives the award for her work on the Maillard reaction in food and physiological systems.

Jana Raupbach completed her studies in food chemistry at Technische Universität Dresden, where she received her doctorate in 2018. This was followed by a five-year postdoctoral fellowship at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke and positions at Wageningen University (NL) and in Potsdam. In 2024, she was appointed to the junior professorship for food toxicology at TU Braunschweig.

Her research focuses on the influence of food processing on proteins and their significance for human health. She pays particular attention to molecular changes in proteins in the increasingly relevant vegan milk and meat alternatives and how these changes affect gastrointestinal digestion.

Her work has already been funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the German Research Foundation. In 2021, she also received the Josef Schormüller Scholarship from the LChG.