Coordination
Dr. Johanna Mörlein
Mother of three with Avgolemono as one of her favourite foods.
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Dr Johanna Mörlein researches food sensory analysis. Her first scientific thesis and a research stay at the Nofima sensory laboratory in Ås under the direction of Marit Rødbotten in 2011 were the starting point. In 2013 she collaborated with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Smell and Taste at the Technical University of Dresden under Prof. Dr. Thomas Hummel. Since then she has been researching human olfaction. In 2016, she completed her PhD on the human sensory perception of boar taint, 'Sensory Quality Control of Boar Taint'. Her thesis made an important contribution to the replacement of anaesthesia-free piglet castration with a possible alternative, and won two awards.
In her scientific work in the sensory laboratory, she investigates the human-sensory aspects of food, including the agronomic context, such as the relationship between breeding/feeding/keeping/killing of farm animals and the effect on human-sensory product quality. In this way, Mörlein combines food sensory science and agricultural science.
- Areas of expertise: Sensory and consumer research, meat quality, sustainable agriculture, food culture
- Academic career:
- Since April 2024 Scientific manager of the Laboratory for Sensory Analysis and Consumer Research
- June 2023 - March 2024 Scientific manager at the Institute for Sugar Beet Research
- 2020-2023 Coordination of the Laboratory for Sensory Analysis and Consumer Research
- 2016-2019 Post Doc for the BLE-project "Studies on the exemplary implementation of sustainable boar finishing at the farming, slaughtering and processing stages in organic farming (BÖLN 2811oe144)"
- 2013-2016 Promotion Sensory Quality Control of Boar Taint BLE: Strategies to avoid odour deviations in the fattening of uncastrated male pigs (STRAT-E-GER).
- 2007-2013 M.Sc. Agricultural sciences 2013, B.Sc. Agricultural sciences 2010
- Research visits:
- 2017 | 3 Weeks Instituto de Biotechnología, San Juan Province, Argentina
- 2014 | 3 Weeks University of Gastronomic Sciences, Bra, Italy
- 2011 | 4 Month Erasmus student at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås, Norway
- Prizes and awards:
- Review activities:
- Food Research International
- Teaching activities:
- B.Sc.740693 Sensory research and sensory marketing
- B.Sc. 0333 Product quality of animal products
- M.Sc. 0095 Sensory Analysis and Consumer Research
- New Publications:
- Siebenmorgen, Mörlein, J., Strack,Tetens and Mörlein (2024): Enhancing agro-biodiversity in chicken: a sensory comparison of broths from German local chicken breeds and their crossbreeds Poultry Science, Volume 103, Issue 6.
- Forkel, Mörlein, Sulk, Beutner, Rohe, Schön, Geier, Buhl (2021): Work-related hazards due to oak processionary moths: a pilot survey on medical symptoms The Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Volume35, Issue11, November 2021.
- Werner, Baldinger, Busseman, Büttner, Weißmann, Ciulu, Mörlein, J., Mörlein, D. (2021): Early Immunocastration of Pigs: From Farming to Meat Quality Animals 2021, 11(2), 298.
- Font‐i‐Furnols, Martín‐Bernal, Aluwé, Bonneau, Haugen, Mörlein, Mörlein, Panella‐Riera, Škrlep (2020): Feasibility of on/at Line Methods to Determine Boar Taint and Boar Taint Compounds: An Overview Animals 2020, 10, 1886; doi:10.3390/ani10101886