About the faculty
Faculty of Food and Nutrition Sciences

Hochschule Niederrhein. Your way.
Dean
  • Room: O 107 / Q 204
  • Phone: +49 2161 186-5310
  • dekan-05(at)hs-niederrhein.de
  • Rheydter Str. 277

  • 41065 Mönchengladbach
  • Consultation:

    Office hours in the current semester:

    Outside of the lecture period, it is recommended that you obtain confirmation of your appointment by e-mail in good time before you plan to attend Consultation hours, as there may be last-minute postponements!
    Current office hours

Vice-Dean
Silke Dörrschuck
Secretary Office of the Dean and Faculty
Elisabeth Brucks
Secretary Student Office
Prof. Dr. Klaus Berger
Bioanalytics
Consulting methodology and consumer services
Honorary professor Dr. Claudia Cavaleiro
Dr. rer. oec. Klaus Gallert
Teacher for special purposes in the Faculty of Food and Nutrition Sciences, field of teaching "Food Marketing and Innovation Management
Physics and Technical Facility Management
Business administration, in particular service management
Honorary Professor Dr. Francois Krier
Member Competence Center Microbiology & Biotechnology (CCMB)
  • Room: Q 212
  • Consultation:

     

    Contact via the professorship for microbiology and food hygiene

     

    (Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Prange) or the Office of the Dean.

     

Methodology and didactics of consumer counseling and education, nutrition and diet counseling
Food technology and sensory science
Physiology of metabolism and nutritional medicine
Mathematics/Statistics and applied IT
Human Nutrition
Teacher for special purposes in the Faculty of Food and Nutrition Sciences, field of teaching "Technology and processes of out-of-home catering".
Microbiology and Food Hygiene, Head of Competence Center Microbiology & Biotechnology (CCMB)
Applied nutrition science
Food biotechnology and product development
Food Logistics
Food Process Technology
Hospitality Management
Catering management and labor science
Chemistry and biochemistry of nutrition
Food science, especially food chemistry, analysis and law
Ludgera Bärtels, Dipl.-Oecotroph.
Research Assistant; data processing labs, faculty data processing, internship supervision in the fields of teaching mathematics, statistics, and applied data processing, dean's assistant.
Mareike Dissemond, M.Sc.
Research Assistant; area of food biotechnology and microbiology in the INGRAIN project.
Meike Hamacher, Dipl. oec. troph.
Research Assistant; Student Advice and Coordination of the Bachelor's degree programme Catering and Hospitality Services as well as Student Degree Programme Counselling for all Bachelor's degree programmes at FB 05.
Dr. Annett Hilbig
Research Assistant; area of nutritional sciences, nutritional status, nutrition planning.
Victoria Hornecker, M.Sc.
Research Assistant; Instrumental Analysis (HPLC) Department
Dr. Kay Krause
Research Assistant; Engineering Department
Corinna Köters, M.Sc.
Research Assistant; area food logistics Project Management KINLI - Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Food Quality in Supply Chains
Solange Landau, M.A.
Resaerch Assistant; media didactician in the Faculty of Food and Nutrition Sciences Team "digitaLe"
Salim Maachaoui, B.Sc.
Research Assistant; Department of Food Technology and Food Sensory Analysis
Christina Nowak, B.Sc.
Research Assistant; laboratories data processing, field of teaching data processing, internship supervision in the faculties mathematics, statistics and applied data processing
Dr.rer.nat. Christina Rehagel
Research Assistant; food analysis and toxicology as part of the "Tandem Niederrhein" program
Cornelia Rohde, Dipl. Oecotroph.
Research Assistant; Presentation and Advising Department Program Advisor for Nutritional Sciences and Food Sciences Bachelors, contact person for internship semester, contract lecturer
  • Room: O 208
  • Phone: +49 (0)2161 186-5342
  • cornelia.rohde(at)hs-niederrhein.de
  • Rheydter Str. 277

  • 41065 Mönchengladbach
  • Consultation:

    Consultation hours

    Consultation hours are by appointment and are available by phone, Zoom, and in person.

    Appointments are made by e-mail.

    In the period from 24.08.23 up to and including 13.09.23, the trainee counseling office is not staffed. In urgent cases, please contact my colleague Ms. Lara Sibum (lara.sibum@hs-niederrhein.de).

     

     

     

Dagmar Rombach, Dipl. Oecotroph.
Research Assistant; data processing labs, faculty data processing, internship supervision in the fields of teaching mathematics, statistics and applied data processing, Web Administrator
Andreas Rummel, B.Sc.
Research Assistant; Department of Metabolic Physiology, Nutritional Medicine, Spiroergometry, and Applied Nutritional Sciences.
Jessica Schmidt, M.Sc.
Research Assistant; Department of Biochemistry of Nutrition and Bioanalytics
Jürgen Sensen, Dipl.-Ing.
Research Assistant; Department of Chemistry and Chemistry of Materials
Lara Sibum, Dipl. Oecotroph.
Research Assistant
  • Room: O 208
  • Phone: +49 2161 186-5332
  • lara.sibum(at)hs-niederrhein.de
  • Rheydter Str. 277

  • 41065 Mönchengladbach
  • Consultation:

    Consultation hours are by appointment and are available by presence, telephone and Zoom. The appointment is made by e-mail.

Birgit Stiller, Dipl. Oecotroph.
Research Assistant; Department of Food Chemistry and Sensory Analysis
Dr. Ulrike Zanzen
Research Assistant; Department of Microbiology and Food Hygiene

Elisabeth Brucks
Secretary Student Office and Office of the Dean
Silke Dörrschuck
Secretary Office of the Dean and Faculty
Anja Fricke, Chem.-techn. Ass.
Staff Laboratories; Chemistry and Food Biotechnology Division
Silvia Kaluza
Employee laboratories
Ina Kille
Staff physics and technology
Lydia Reger
Employee Financial Controlling; Laboratories
Gerda Schmitz
Employee laboratories
Mareike Wenzlaff
Employee laboratories

Dr. rer. nat. Olivier Aust, State-certified food chemist, expert for consumer health protection
Food contact materials
Patrik Bertsch, Head of Sales and Customer Management at Team Gesundheit GmbH
Dr. Margareta Büning-Fesel, Management Federal Center for Nutrition
Nutrition education campaigns
Dr. Gabriele Geurtzen, Dipl. oec. troph.
Special seminar nutrition therapy
Dr. agr. Antje Hambitzer
Transfer Officer Research and Transfer Department VPII Agricultural Production/Commodity Science Fruit and Vegetables
Dr. oec. troph. Angela Kopitzki
Food Microbiology
Annette Müller, State-certified food chemist
Laboratory Chemistry Food analysis I
David Peters, M.A.
Head of the Coordination Office for Evaluation
Dipl. Oecotroph. Dagmar Röntgen, Nutritionist/DGE; specialist consultant for eating disorders/FZE
Psychology 1, basic knowledge of eating disorders
Brigitte Soeters-Jakobs, Dipl. Oecotroph.
Work science, presentation and consulting
Manon Struck-Pacyna, Head of Public Relations Food Association Germany
PR and public relations practice
Dr. Irmtrud Wagner, Owner LEBENSART, agency for communication
Public Relations

Contact persons and representatives

Contact for schools

Lara Sibum, Dipl. Oecotroph.
Research Assistant

international coordinator

BaföG Representative

Equal opportunity representative of the facul

Dr. Annett Hilbig
Equal opportunity representative of the faculty

Long-term project officer

Internship Representative

Cornelia Rohde, Dipl. Oecotroph.
Research Assistant; Presentation and Advising Department Program Advisor for Nutritional Sciences and Food Sciences Bachelors, contact person for internship semester, contract lecturer
  • Room: O 208
  • Phone: +49 (0)2161 186-5342
  • cornelia.rohde(at)hs-niederrhein.de
  • Consultation:

    Consultation hours

    Consultation hours are by appointment and are available by phone, Zoom, and in person.

    Appointments are made by e-mail.

    In the period from 24.08.23 up to and including 13.09.23, the trainee counseling office is not staffed. In urgent cases, please contact my colleague Ms. Lara Sibum (lara.sibum@hs-niederrhein.de).

     

     

     

Committees

Evaluation Committee

Examinations Board

Chair of the Examinations Board

Study Advisory Board

Lecture Planning

Occupational Science

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Jens Wetterau

Room: O 110
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5327

Out-of-home catering

Responsibility:
Dr. Christiane Pakula

Room: O K39
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5347

Consulting, media and presentation technology

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Bödeker
Prof. Dr. Kronsbein

Contact:
Dipl.-Oecotroph. Cornelia Rohde
E-Mail: cornelia.rohde(at)hs-niederrhein.de

Room: O 200
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5323

Bioanalytics

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Klaus Berger

Contact:
Jessica Schmidt
E-Mail: Jessica.Schmidt@hs-niederrhein.de

Room: O 224
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5322

Chemistry, biochemistry and physiology

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Williger

Contact:

Chem.-techn. Ass. Anja Fricke
E-Mail: anja.fricke(at)hs-niederrhein.de

M.Sc. Jessica Schmidt
E-Mail: jessica.schmidt(at)hs-niederrhein.de

Dipl.-Ing. Jürgen Sensen
E-Mail: juergen.sensen(at)hs-niederrhein.de

 

Room: O E35
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5324

IT workroom

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Menzel

Contact person:
Dipl.-Oecotroph. Dagmar Rombach
E-mail: dagmar.rombach(at)hs-niederrhein.de

Room: O 207
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5375

Link EDP workroom

IT seminar room

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Menzel

Contact:
Dipl.-Oecotroph. Dagmar Rombach
E-mail: dagmar.rombach(at)hs-niederrhein.de

Room: O 127
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5368

Nutritional status

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Noreik

Contact:
Dr. Annett Hilbig
E-mail: annett.hilbig@hs-niederrhein.de

Room: O 131
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5371

Hospitality

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Angelika Sennlaub

Room: U 102
Rheydter Str. 188, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Instrumental analytics

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Georg Wittich

Contact:
M.Sc. Victoria Hornecker
E-mail: victoria.hornecker@hs-niederrhein.de

Room: O 221
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5337

Physics

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Uwe Großmann

Contact:
Dr. Kay Krause
E-Mail: kay.krause(at)hs-niederrhein.de

Room: O 215
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5335

Sensory and food technology

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. Sabine Kühn
E-Mail: sabine.kuehn(at)hs-niederrhein.de

Laboratory Complex:
Room: O E25 Product Development

Room: O E27 Sensory Technology
Room: O E32 Food Technology
Room: O 128b Seminar Room Sensory Technology


Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5370

Spiroergometry

Laboratory responsibility:
Prof. Dr. med. Norbert Ludwig

Contact:
Prof. Dr. med. Norbert Ludwig
E-mail: norbert.ludwig@hs-niederrhein.de

Room: O 201
Rheydter Str. 277, 41065 Mönchengladbach

Contact: +49 (0)2161 186-5372