EuChemS FCD Young Researcher Award
Elisabeth Koch is the deputy head of the National Reference Laboratory for Food Contact Materials at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin, Germany. She obtained her PhD in food chemistry in 2023 at the Chair of Food Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, in the group of Prof. Schebb. During her PhD, her research focused on the formation of oxidized fatty acids in plant oils and the influence of oil processing on oxylipin patterns, allowing to suggest new potential markers for oil quality and authenticity.