Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann

Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann is the President of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Following his studies in food chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Thomas F. Hofmann obtained his doctorate and completed his postdoctoral studies at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). After becoming deputy director of the German Research Center for Food Chemistry in 1999, he was appointed Chair of Food Chemistry at the University of Münster in 2002 and returned to TUM in 2007 as a full professor of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science. Since 2007, he has been a member of the ZIEL Institute for Food and Health, and since 2015, he has been co-director of the Bavarian Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Center (BayBioMS). He is a senior visiting professor of the Faculty of Science of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand (2015-18). As a chairman and coordinator of a European consortium, Prof. Hofmann successfully initiated the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) “EIT FOOD” of the European Institute of Technology (EIT) in 2016. In 2017, he was appointed director of the new Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at TUM. From 2009 to 2019, he served as Senior Vice President of Research & Innovation. Since October 1, 2019, he has been the president of TUM.