Department Horticultural Engineering

Scientific staff members and their areas of research

Dr. agr. Martin Geyer
Extension: -610
Building/Room: B 107
e-mail: geyer@atb-potsdam.de
  • Quality maintenance and competitiveness  in harvest and postharvest processes for fruit and vegetable
  • Processing fruit and vegetable 
  • Cleaning of vegetable
  • Ergonomics, workplace design, working systems

Dr. rer. nat. Werner Herppich
Extension: -620
Building/Room: B 109
e-mail: wherppich@atb-potsdam.de
  • Physiological product properties
  • Morphological and physiological thresholds of stresses for evaluation of processing in harvest and postharvest
  • Methods of quality evaluation

Dr.-Ing. Oliver Schlüter
Extension: -613
Building/Room: B 106
e-mail: oschlueter@atb-potsdam.de

  • Horticultural processing steps and engineering
  • Emerging technologies in fresh food processing

Dipl.-Ing.  Manfred Linke
Extension: -615
Building/Room: B 004
e-mail: mlinke@atb-potsdam.de
  • Thermodynamic product properties
  • Effects of climatic factors on changes of product quality
  • Climatization and refrigeration engineering

Prof. Dr. rer. hort. habil. Manuela Zude
Extension: -612
Building/Room: B 101
e-mail: zude@atb-potsdam.de
  • Physiological and optical properties of horticultural products
  • Non-destructive product monitoring and process management
  • Laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy

Dr. rer. agr. Martina Jakob
Extension: -624
Building/Room: B 110
e-mail: mjakob@atb-potsdam.de
  • Workplace design for horticultural post harvest processes

Dr. rer. nat. Karin Hassenberg
Extension: -911
Building/Room: B202
e-mail: khassenberg@atb-potsdam.de
  • Physicochemical methods for quality assurance of horticultural products during post harvest period
  • Cleaning of vegetable

Dr. agr. Ulrike Praeger
Extension: -917
Building/Room: B 208
e-mail: upraeger@atb-potsdam.de

  • Storage technology of fruit and vegetables

Dr. rer. hort. Janina Bolling
Extension: -625
Building/Room: B 005
e-mail: jwulf@atb-potsdam.de

PhD Students and their areas of research

Dipl.-Ing. Antje Fröhling
Extension: -625
Building/Room: B 005
e-mail: afroehling@atb-potsdam.de

Dipl.-Ing. Julia Foerster
App.: -629
Haus/Raum: B 104
e-mail: jfoerster@atb-potsdam.de
  • BLE-Project "Acoustic impulse response method for automatic quality characterization of horticultural products - using the example of hollow asparagus and mealy pip- and stone-fruit"

Dipl.-Chem. Franziska Grzegorzewski
Extension: -628
Building/Room: B 006
e-mail: fgrzegorzewski@atb-potsdam.de

  • Plasma Chemistry of Oxygen Radicals in Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma with respect to Fresh Produce Processing

  • Effect of atmospheric pressure plasma treatment on the stability of flavonoids

Dipl.-Ing. Julia Durek
Extension: -625
Building/Room: B 005
e-mail: jschneider@atb-potsdam.de

Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Baier
Extension: - 915
Building/Room: B 206
e-mail: mbaier@atb-potsdam.de
  • Joint research project FriPlas “Application of plasma processes for shelf-life extension of perishable foods in the postharvest processing chain”
    Subproject B: "Hygienic status of produce and process parameters"

Dipl.-Leb. Chem. Amin Ghadiri Khozroughi
Extension: -617
Building/Room: B 103
e-mail: ghadiri@atb-potsdam.de
  • DFG-AiF-Project "Minimal Processing in der Fleischverarbeitung"
    Subproject 4 (DFG): " Differenzierung von Autofluoreszenzsignaturen zur Online-Erfassung bakterieller Kontaminanten in der automatisierten Fleischzerlegung"

Dipl.-Ing. agr. Yousef Rezaei
Extension: -918
Building/Room: B 209
e-mail: yrezaei@atb-potsdam.de
  • Technology Garden - Influence of preharvest conditions on fruit development, quality and postharvest behaviour of fruit using the example of plums

Dipl.-Ing. agr. Michael Pflanz
Extension: -915
Building/Room: B 206
e-mail: mpflanz@atb-potsdam.de
  • Projekt FRUTA "Instrumental analyses of physiological fruit maturity stage based on physical properties"
    Subproject: A sensor system has been developed regarding mechanical and optical parameters that were fused by means of statistical model.

 Technical staff and  areas of responsibility

Roswitha Betge
Extension: -611
Building/Room: B 106a
  • Internal service

Veronika Egert
Extension: -632
Building/Room: H 7
e-mail: vegert@atb-potsdam.de

  • Microbiological assistance

Dipl.-Ing. Wilfried Ficht
Extension: -623
Building/Room: B 112
e-mail: wficht@atb-potsdam.de

  • Research engineer

Dipl.-Chem. Kathrin Ilte
Extension: -617
Building/Room: B 103
e-mail: kilte@atb-potsdam.de

  • Internet presentation
  • Test evaluation
  • Layout

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Joachim Intreß
Extension: -927
Building/Room: B 204
e-mail: jintress@atb-potsdam.de

  • Software development

Susanne Klocke
Extension: -118/126
Building/Room: H 10/104
e-mail: sklocke@atb-potsdam.de
  • Research engineer, Flow cytometry

David Sakowsky
Extension: -622
Building/Room: H 7
e-mail: dsakowsky@atb-potsdam.de
  • Technician 

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Christian Regen
Extension: -616
Building/Room: B 102
 e-mail: cregen@atb-potsdam.de
  • Research engineer, Software development

Corinna Rolleczek
Extension: -618/614
Building/Room: B 007
e-mail: crolleczek@atb-potsdam.de

  • Laboratory assistance

 

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Hans Stollberg
Extension: -621
Building/Room: B 112
e-mail: hstollberg@atb-potsdam.de

Dipl.-Ing. Ingo Truppel
Extension: -621
Building/Room: B 112
e-mail: itruppel@atb-potsdam.de

  • Software and hardware development 
  • Computer technique

Gabriele Wegner
Extension: -618/614
Building/Room: B 001
e-mail: gwegner@atb-potsdam.de

  • Head of laboratory
  • Technical assistant

 

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