2025 Program, Speakers & Abstracts

8:30 – 9:00

Registration & breakfast


9:00 – 9:05

Welcome address

Søren Balling Engelsen (Chairman)

University of Copenhagen

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9:05 – 9:40

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Safe food and feed through integrated approaches to control and analyse (emerging) plant and fungal secondary metabolites

Rudolf Krska

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

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9:40 – 10:00

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Existing food processing classifications overlook the phytochemical composition of processed plant-based protein-rich foods

Kati Hanhineva

University of Turku & University of Eastern Finland

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10:00 – 10:20

Four flash talks


10:20 – 10:45

Poster session & break


10:45 – 11:05

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Spectral imaging for spatially-resolved structural and chemical analysis of starch–protein regions in chymosin-induced protein gels

Dionysios D. Neofytos

Aarhus University

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11:05 – 11:25

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Transforming hyperspectral images into chemical maps: A novel end-to-end deep learning approach

Ole-Christian Galbo Engstrøm

FOSS

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11:25 – 11:45

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The potential of Raman spectroscopy as a high-throughput phenotyping tool in aquaculture

Nils Kristian Afseth

Nofima, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research

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11:45 - 12:05

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Mycotoxin detection using infrared spectroscopy: Insights from three years of research

Stephan Freitag

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

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12:05 - 13:00

Lunch & posters


13:00 – 13:30

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From wild cultures to cultured foods: Biodiversity-driven innovation in fermentation

Leoni Jahn

Technical University of Denmark

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13:30 – 13:50

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Beyond the “Ale” vs “Lager” paradigm in untargeted high-throughput beer chemical analysis

Roberto Schimmenti

Carlsberg Research Laboratory, Copenhagen

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13:50 – 14:10

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From antimicrobial residues to mycotoxins and plant toxins: A robust (U)HPLC-MS/MS multi-class method for food and feed

Lidija Kenjeric

Austrian Competence Centre for Feed, Food, Quality, Safety and Innovation

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14:10 – 14:30

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New opportunities with industrial non-contact sub-surface NIR measurements

Jens Petter Wold

Nofima, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research

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14:30 – 15:00

Poster session & break


15:00 – 16:00

Handing out the prestigious Nils Foss Excellence Prize (€ 100,000) and Nils Foss Talent Prize (€ 15,000)

Nils Foss Prize

Award Ceremony


16:00 – 17:00

Honoring the new 2025 Nils Foss Prize Laureate and Talent with a glass of wine, a few appetizers and time to network

Nils Foss Prize

Award Reception


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