Nanna Viereck

Primary fields of research

In brief, my major research interests are: Development and various applications of liquid and solid state low and high field NMR spectroscopy for the study of food systems and in metabolomics. In particular, the use of quantitative NMR spectroscopy for screening of food quality parameters using multivariate approaches in the data analysis. Food systems include pectins/alginates, carbohydrates, lipids and fatty acids, together with whole food as milk, cheese, yogurt, cereal, bread, juice and beer. Furthermore, since NMR spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful non-invasive technique for both in vivo and metabolomic investigations, NMR studies of living biological tissue and biofluids are included in my work. I have participated in the development of the Dept. of Food Science metabolomics platform. 

Teaching

Teaching basic spectroscopy with focus on NMR at various courses. Teaching entrepreneurship in food in a shared course with DTU. Supervising bachelor, master and PhD students at the University of Copenhagen.

• Course responsible Quantitative Bio-spectroscopy
• Course responsible Food Entrepreneurship: Designing New Business Opportunities in the Food Sector

Short presentation

Beyond research and teaching, I have worked as deputy head of research at the Dept. of Food Science since April 1, 2014 and as vice-manager in the section Spectroscopy & Chemometrics since February 1, 2009. At present, this uses most of my work hours. I enjoy being involved in the management of the department and the section incl. participation in the discussion of the strategic development of the department. 

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Education

2002: PhD, Dept. of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Roskilde University, Denmark

1997: MSc, Laboratory of Molecular Spectroscopy, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Academic affiliations

2014 – current: Deputy head of research, Dept. Food Science (FOOD), University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark

2009 – current Associate Professor and vice-manager, Spectroscopy & Chemometrics (SPECC), FOOD KU, Denmark

2003 – 2009: Assistant Professor, Quality and Technology (QT), FOOD KU, Denmark

March 2003: 3 weeks visit, Dept. of Soil and Water, Adelaide University, Australia

2002 – 2003: Post doc, Plant Nutrition, Plant Research Dept., Risø National laboratory, Denmark

Teaching

2004 – current: Course responsible Quantitative Bio-spectroscopy

2013 – current: Course responsible Food Entrepreneurship: Designing New Business Opportunities in the Food Sector

Organization of conferences

2013: General chair and organizer of the innovation conference “Fødevareingredienser – et dansk væksteventyr”

2013 + 2014: Co-chair of the annual inSPIReFOOD conference

Other commercial offices

2012 – current: Working party member, Food & Health in the innovation network for health and life sciences Biopeople

2013 – current: inSPIRe pillar manager (pillar II, process analytical technology; 3 projects)

Quantitative performance indices

ResearcherID: D-4948-2014

ORCID: 0000-0002-6919-1488

Selected publications

Viereck N, Sørensen K M and Engelsen S B (2013). Investigating depth profiles from porcine adipose tissue by HR MAS NMR spectroscopy. In Magnetic Resonance in Food Science: Food for Thought. Eds: van Duynhoven J, Belton P S, Webb G A and Van As H, The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 81-89

Jensen M G, Knudsen J C, Viereck N, Kristensen M and Astrup A (2012). Functionality of alginate based supplements for application in human appetite regulation. Food Chemistry 132, 823-829

Seefeldt H F, Larsen F H, Viereck N, Petersen M A and Engelsen S B (2011). Lipid composition and deposition during grain filling in intact barley (Hordeum vulgare) mutant seeds as studied by ¹H HR MAS NMR. Journal of Cereal Science 54, 442-449

Bro R, Viereck N, Toft M, Toft H,  Hansen P I and Engelsen S B (2010), Mathematical chromatography solves the cocktail party effect in mixtures using 2D spectra and PARAFAC. Trends in Analytical Chemistry 29, 281-284

Andersen C M, Frøst M B and Viereck N (2010). Spectroscopic characterization of low- and non-fat cream cheeses. International Dairy Journal 20, 32-39

Viereck N, Winning H, Seefeldt H F and Engelsen S B (2009) ¹H HR MAS NMR: Profiling metabolites in single cereal kernels (of wheat and barley). In Magnetic Resonance in Food Science: Challenges in a Changing World. Eds: Guðjónsdóttir M, Belton P S and Webb G A, The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 29-36

Winning H, Roldán-Marín E, Dragsted L O, Viereck N, Poulsen M, Sánchez-Moreno C, Pilar Cano M, Engelsen S B (2009). An explanatory NMR nutri-metabonomic investigation reveals dimethyl sulfone as a dietary biomarker for onion intake. Analyst 134, 2344-2351

Nielsen M M, Viereck N and Engelsen S B (2007) Phytic acid degradation by phytase – as viewed by ³¹P NMR and multivariate curve resolution. In Magnetic Resonance in Food Science: Molecules to Man. Eds: Farhat I, Belton P S and Webb G A, The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 213-221

Salomonsen T, Sejersen M T, Viereck N, Ipsen R and Engelsen S B (2007) Water mobility in acidified milk drinks studied by low-field ¹H NMR. International Dairy Journal 17, 294-301

Viereck N, Hansen P E and Jakobsen I (2004) Phosphate pool dynamics in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices studied by in vivo ³¹P NMR spectroscopy. New Phytologist 162, 783-794