Marjon Wells-Bennik

As a Principal Scientist in the section Food Safety and Fermentation at NIZO, Dr. Marjon Wells-Bennik works on preventing and solving food safety and quality issues. Her main focus is on the control of undesirable bacteria in foods, which slow an enormous diversity and cause foodborne illness or spoilage. Effective solutions to protect safety and quality of foods include traditional processes such as food fermentation, heat processing, and formulation of products to prevent outgrowth of undesirable microbes. This requires knowledge about microbes and their functionalities and properties, the food ingredients and their sources, the manufacturing process, and finished product composition. Together with the NIZO team, this is tackled using multidisciplinary approaches which range from trouble shooting activities, predictive modelling, challenge testing, process validations, microbial and chemical risk assessments, to in-depth genomics analysis of microbes and gene-trait matching. She has been the daily supervisor of seven PhD students over the past 15 years.
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Supervisor of the Doctoral Candidate 2's Project, the Doctoral Candidate 3's Project, and the Doctoral Candidate R's Project.