Group members
PhD Students
Anne Zartmann
Food chemist
Email: anne.zartmann@fau.de
Research topics
Anne investigates oxidised fatty acids in food and food supplements. She is looking to improve existing methods and find new approaches for efficient analysis
Publications
Zartmann, A., Völcker, L. & Hammann, S. Quantitative analysis of fatty acids and vitamin E and total lipid profiling of dietary supplements from the German market. Eur Food Res Technol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00217-022-04193-7
Zartmann A., Völcker L., Hammann S., 50. Deutscher Lebensmittelchemikertag, 19.09.2022 – 21.09.2022 (Hamburg, Germany): Kleine Kapseln, große Vielfalt: Nahrungsergänzungsmittel mit n‐3‐Fettsäuren
Zartmann, A., Hammann, S., 49. Deutscher Lebensmittelchemikertag, 30.8.-01.09.2021
(Wuppertal, Germany/online): Gehalte von wertgebenden n-3-Fettsäuren in Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln
Anastasia Gabiger
Food chemist
Email: anastasia.gabiger@fau.de
Research topics
Anastasia is part of the “Roman Melting Pots” team and is focusing on the analysis of archaeological lipids. She is using various chromatographic and high resolution mass spectrometry approaches to achieve a comprehensive characterisation of archaeological and modern food lipids.
Publications
Gabiger A., Meckelmann S., Schmitz O., Hammann S., 50. Deutscher Lebensmittelchemikertag, 19.09.2022 – 21.09.2022 (Hamburg, Germany): Lipidprofilanalyse zur Unterscheidung von Milch von Kuh, Ziege und Schaf
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Rachel Vykukal
Archaeologist
Email: rachel.vykukal@fau.de
Research topics
Rachel is an anthropological archaeologist with a specialization in organic residue analysis of pottery. She applies various chromatographic and mass spectrometry techniques to the study of ancient foodways from Roman Britain and the prehistoric Aegean. As part of the “Roman Melting Pots” project, she is analyzing archaeological lipid residues to investigate culinary practices of immigrant and local populations, adaptive strategies, and cultural diversity on the Roman frontier in late 1st-3rd century AD Britain. She also leads the “Dairying in the Southern Aegean” project, which seeks to expand our understanding of dairying practices in Neolithic Greece.
Publications
Vykukal, R., Mavridis, F., and Tankosić, Ž., 2021, Lipid Analysis of Pottery from the Early
Bronze Age II Burials at Ayia Triada Cave, Southern Euboea, Greece: Evidence for
Ritualized Consumption?, Archaeometry 63(6), 1342-1362.
Visiting Researchers
Dr. Emma Loftus
Institut für Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Provinzialrömische Archäologie
LMU München
Email: Emma.Loftus@vfpa.fak12.uni-muenchen.de
Research topics
Emma is an archaeologist by training specialising in isotope and radiocarbon analysis. Her current MSCA Individual fellowship project RAMEKIN: “Residue and Materials Analyses of Early Iron Age Ceramics, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa” investigates the subsistence and lifeways of early farming communities in the region through analysis of ceramic fragments and the lipid residues preserved therein.
Publications
Emma’s publication can be found on her LMU staff page or google scholar page