Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Heike Raddatz

Prof. Dr. Raddatz studied chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden, specializing in food chemistry, and obtained her doctorate at the Institute of Food Chemistry and Technical Biochemistry, her thesis was titled"Studies on the modification of the action of insulin". She was part of the peptide and natural product chemistry working group.

Her studies were followed by 1 year working in natural product research at the Arzneimittelwerk Dresden for the synthesis and analysis of oligonucleotides.

Prof. Dr. Raddatz then returned to the Institute of Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden. Her research focused on cosmetics, in particular on structure-activity relationships of contact allergens, fragrance analysis and functional properties of natural substances, plant raw materials and bee products.
In March 2009, Prof. Dr. Heike Raddatz accepted an appointment at Trier University of Applied Sciences.

 As part of the Children's University of Rhineland-Palatinate, she is the initiator and head of the Children's Chemistry Laboratory at Trier University of Applied Science.

Her current research areas are: Wine aromas and their properties functional natural products in food and cosmetic products.

Prof. Raddatz is involved as an expert in the following national expert committees:
Commission for Cosmetic Products at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin
Working Group on Cosmetic Products of the Food Chemistry Society of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), Frankfurt a.M.