Overview
Overview
As an interdisciplinary subject, nutrition science deals with various questions concerning human nutrition. What do individual foods consist of and what biochemical effect do they have in our bodies? What influence does nutrition have on diseases? How can changed eating habits prevent diseases? How can the quality of food be assessed? How do food ingredients act on a cellular and molecular level?
Our students acquire nutritional expertise during the Master's programme in Nutritional Sciences with the option of an individual focus in the areas of preventive and therapeutic nutrition or food science. They deal in depth with physiological and biochemical processes of human nutrition, with their disorders, the composition and analysis of foods and the functional mode of action of food ingredients.
The Master's programme in Nutritional Sciences is a consecutive programme that builds on an already acquired, relevant Bachelor's degree. Further information on admission requirements can be found in the category "Application".
Teaching and research is conducted in the areas of:
- Human nutrition
- Biochemistry and molecular biology
- Food science
- Nutrition in prevention and therapy
- Nutrition and the immune system
- Molecular nutrition research.