About Prof. Dr. Markus Schmid
Professor Dr Markus Schmid is a trained master butcher and business economist. He studied food technology and food processing at the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda and completed his doctorate at the Chair of Food Packaging Technology at the Technical University of Munich. He worked as a research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising. There he led the research focus "Biopolymers in paper and film applications". Since 2018, he has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Albstadt-Sigmaringen in the Faculty of Life Sciences, where he heads the Sustainable Packaging Institute SPI. He has published numerous scientific papers in international journals on packaging related topics and is an appointed member of the editorial board of several scientific journals such as "Food Packaging and Shelf Life" (Elsevier). Professor Schmid is a member of the Doctoral Centre of the Baden-Württemberg Doctoral Association.
