Prof. Jens Jørgen Sloth

Professor Jens Jørgen Sloth

Head of research group for analytical food chemistry, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Director of European Union reference laboratory for metals and nitrogenous compounds in feed and food (EURL-MN)

Biography

Jens Sloth is a MSc graduate from the Technical University in Denmark (1995) and later finalized his phd studies at the University of Bergen in Norway (2005). He has extensive experience within various research projects on toxic and essential trace elements in food and feed with special emphasis on the development of methods for trace element speciation (e.g. selenium, arsenic, iodine, mercury) using HPLC-ICPMS based methods and has been the project leader of several research projects with activities in this area. He is a lecturer in analytical food chemistry at DTU and has been supervisor for 30+ thesis works at PhD, MSc and BSc level. He has for more than a decade been an expert member of the CEN standardization committees for trace elements in food and feed and contributed to the development of new standardized methods of analysis for the determination of trace elements and their species. In 2018, he was appointed as director of the European Reference Laboratory for metals and nitrogenous compounds in feed and food (EURL-MN).