Carsten Zufall appointed as BrewingScience reviewer

In July 2011, Dr Carsten Zufall has been accepted as a reviewer for the scientific online journal BrewingScience (www.brewingscience.de).

Dr Carsten Zufall is in charge of Technology and Innovation at Polar Breweries (Venezuela), where he is responsible for brewing processes and technology, quality processes and GLP, brewing materials, applied research and new product design.

He graduated in Brewing Science from Berlin University of Technology in 1990 and subsequently completed a PhD (Dr.-Ing.). Following postdoctoral lecture qualification, he was awarded Associate Professorship (Priv.-Doz.) in Brewing Science in 2001.

Carsten is a member of the EBC Brewing Science Group, the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Institute of Brewing, ASBC, MBAA, the German Brewmasters’ and Maltmasters’ Association (DBMB) and the VLB Alumni Association, and the Cerveceros Latinoamericanos association. He is currently serving as MBAA District Venezuela’s President. His current research activities include beer flavour stability, flavour chemistry, sensory analysis, microbiology and environmental topics.