Prof. Dr Andrea Büttner has been appointed Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising as of 1 November 2019. In recent years at Fraunhofer IVV, the internationally renowned scientist established the Department of Sensory Analytics, launched the Product Performance business field, and took on the role of Deputy Director of the Institute. Concurrently, she built up an aroma research group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and in 2017 was appointed Professor of the newly created Chair of Aroma and Smell Research.

Fraunhofer IVV is a leading research organization in the field of food, packaging, processing machinery, product performance, recycling and the environment. Since 1 November 2019, the institute is jointly headed by Prof. Dr Andrea Büttner and Prof. Dr Horst-Christian Langowski, the present Director of the Institute, who emphasizes: “With her renown in science and research, Prof. Büttner is the ideal person to lead the institute. Her multidisciplinary network will further enhance the transfer of R&D results to industry”.