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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften
Caroline Stokes, born in 1978, previously worked as a researcher at the Medical Research Council, Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge, England, and for the British National Health Service. She obtained her PhD from the Medical Faculty of Saarland University, where she subsequently qualified as a professor in Nutritional Medicine in 2017. In 2019 she moved to Berlin to take up a guest professorship in Food and Health at the Thaer Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2020 she has also been a group leader at the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam-Rehbruecke.
Leitmotif
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” (Stephen Hawking)
Activities
Caroline Stokes is interested in evidence-based medicine. She has previously worked together with the Cochrane Organisation, has been a member of several societies, and has recently worked with the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS) and German Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (DGAV) to establish evidence-based key recommendations for the prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment of gallstones. She is currently part of a Berlin-funded initiative, where together with scientists from various backgrounds she will systematically study the social cohesion-food-health nexus, integrating perspectives from multidisciplinary fields including the medical and nutritional sciences, the social and political sciences, and nutrition and innovation systems research.
Awards
Caroline Stokes has received both academic and research awards, including the Van Den Berghs Prize from King’s College London, the National Health Service Journal Award and research-related stipends from the European Association for the Study of the Liver.
Focus
Caroline Stokes is interested in exploring the effect food and nutrients have on health outcomes, with the vitamin D metabolic phenotype being of particular interest. Recently, this curiosity has extended to understanding the spectrum of vitamin D metabolites present in plants, in addition to their specific functions. The motivation behind this research is to discover more edible and sustainable sources of vitamin D.
A vitamin is defined as an organic molecule essential for health. Indeed, vitamin D has been associated with bone health and with immune-related effects, however a vitamin D deficiency has (…)
Batteries without critical raw materials
The market for rechargeable batteries is growing rapidly, but the necessary raw materials are limited. Sodium-ion batteries, for example, could offer an alternative. A joint research group from HZB and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has investigated new combinations of electrolyte solutions ... more
Light-controlled molecules: Scientists develop new recycling strategy
Robust plastics are composed of molecular building-blocks, held together by tough chemical linkages. Their cleavage is extremely difficult to achieve, rendering the recycling of these materials almost impossible. A research team from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) developed a molec ... more
Photocatalyst system for plastics production
A research team from Berlin has developed a novel catalyst system, which enables the regulation of multiple polymerization processes to produce biodegradable plastics solely by illumination with light of different colors. The properties of a polymeric material are highly dependent on facto ... more
Light-regulated production of biodegradable plastics
Light is a powerful tool to manipulate a vast variety of chemical processes. The use of specific photo-chromic molecules allows chemists to perform reactions in a reversible fashion with a high spatio-temporal resolution. more
Alzheimer's: searching for a way out
Although the discovery of Alzheimer's disease now lies over a century in the past, the crucial events that influence the course of the disorder remain largely unknown. For some time now, researchers have been turning their attention to the tau protein, long known to be a component of deposi ... more
Dietrich Volmer, born in 1965, is Full Professor and Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He graduated with a PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Hannover in 1994, under the supervision of Karsten Levsen. After postdoctoral research as ORISE Fello ... more
Michael Kathan, born in 1988, studied chemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin and ETH Zurich, where he focused on fluorine chemistry and strained aromatic systems. After completing his master degree at the Freie Universität Berlin, he began his PhD thesis in 2015 in the research group of ... more
Fabian Eisenreich, born in 1988, studied chemistry at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he completed his bachelor and master thesis in the group of Professor Stefan Hecht while being supported during his studies by the Deutschlandstipendium. In the same research group in December 20 ... more
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