Maaria Kortesniemi
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mkkort@utu.fi +358 29 450 3455 +358 50 471 5962 Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4 C Turku : 7037 : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4273-3459 |
Food chemistry; Food metabolomics; NMR spectroscopy; Honey; Berries; Sea buckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides); Strawberry; Grapes; Human milk; Secondary metabolites; Lipids; Multivariate data analysis
I am associate professor in food development at the Food Sciences unit (Department of Life Technologies, UTU). I have completed my PhD in food chemistry in 2016 (UTU) and hold a Title of Docent in food metabolomics. The topic of my PhD thesis was "NMR Metabolomics of Foods – Investigating the Influence of Origin on Sea Buckthorn Berries, Brassica Oilseeds and Honey". During my PhD studies (2014) and post doc phase (2018) I visited the Slupsky lab in University of California - Davis.
My research focuses in varying topics in the field of NMR Metabolomics and Food Sciences.
- Effect of Northern latitudes on food plant phenotypes
- Human milk metabolomics
- Botanical origin, quality and authenticity of honey
- Lipidomics
- Structural elucidation (NMR)
Project PI of
- TYRNIRAKI - nutrient cycling at the Archipelago Sea drainage basins using sea buckthorn stands
- New quality of garden strawberry (collaboration with Natural Resources Institute Finland)
- Chemical composition and quality of Finnish grapes
- Food Technology
- Food Safety and Legislation (process-derived contaminants)
- Food Metabolomics and Multivariate Analysis (NMR metabolomics)
- Departmental contact person for student exchange
- Stability of Hydroxycinnamic Acid Derivatives, Flavonol Glycosides, and Anthocyanins in Black Currant Juice (2016)
- Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- Advances in birch syrup chemistry (2015)
- EURO FOOD CHEM XVIII
- Clinical evidence on potential health benefits of berries (2015)
- Current Opinion in Food Science
- Honungens ursprung utreds med hjälp av metabolomik (2015)
- Bitidningen
- Hunajan kasvialkuperä kiinnostaa elintarviketieteilijöitä Turun yliopistossa (2015)
- Mehiläinen
- Koivusta mahlaa ja siirappia (2015)
- Kehittyvä elintarvike
- NMR metabolomics of ripened and developing oilseed rape (Brassica napus) and turnip rape (Brassica rapa) (2015)
- Food Chemistry
- Profiling Finnish honeys from different botanical origins with NMR metabolomics (2015)
- EURO FOOD CHEM XVIII
- 1H NMR spectroscopy reveals the effect of genotype and growth conditions on composition of sea buckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides L.) berries (2014)
- Food Chemistry
- Coordinate changes in gene expression and triacylglycerol composition in the developing seeds of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) and turnip rape (Brassica rapa) (2014)
- Food Chemistry



