Dietmar Krautwurst, PhD

Dr. Dietmar Krautwurst heads the program area of Chemoreception & Biosignaling of the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. He is an expert on odor molecules released from foods and beverages, and has long-studied the odorant receptor proteins that noses use to detect odor molecules. He studied biology in Germany and Switzerland, got his PhD at the Pharmacology Institute (Günter Schultz) of the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and did postdoctoral training with Randall R. Reed and King-Wai Yau at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. Dr. Krautwurst is a principal investigator at the German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany, and head of the Physiology Dept. at the German Research Center for Food Chemistry, Freising, Germany.