Martin Roder's Biography

Martin Roder, Food Chemist, Head of Food Allergens, Institute For Product Quality

Martin Röder is a food chemist and has been working on food allergen detection methods since he started his PhD project in at the Paul-Ehrlich Institut (PEI) in Langen in cooperation with the university of Frankfurt. In 2011 he received his PhD in food chemistry and was awarded with the Heinrich Stockmeyer science award for his PhD work entitled “Identification and sanitation of allergenic cross-contact in food industry and development of novel allergen detection methods”. In 2012, he joined the ifp - Institut für Produktqualität in Berlin, Germany. Currently, he is head of the department allergen analysis and head of the R&D working group “development and improvement of food allergen detection methods”. He has published several scientific papers on allergen detection methods.