Front Matter

About the Editors

Uwe Bornscheuer(born 1964) studied Chemistry at the University of Hannover,

Germany, where he graduated with a Diploma in 1990. After receiving a Ph.D.

in Chemistry at the Institute of Technical Chemistry at the same University in

1993, he spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Nagoya, Japan, with Profes-

sor Tsuneo Yamane. He then joined Professor Rolf Schmid at the University of Stutt-

gart, Germany, where he finished his Habilitation in Technical Biochemistry in 1998.

In 1999, he became Professor at the Department of Technical Chemistry and Bio-

technology at the University of Greifswald, Germany. He is married and has one

daughter.

The German Society for Fat Science(DGF, Deutsche Gesellschaft fu ̈r Fettwis-

senschaft) was founded in 1936 by the late Professor Hans Paul Kaufmann. DGF is a

non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of fat science and technology.

Consisting of several divisions and working groups, DGF ensures an exchange of

state-of-the-art knowledge in the area of lipids, fats and oils. DGF dissiminates ex-

pert knowledge, organizes international and national conferences, training courses,

and ring tests. The Society’s former journalFett/Lipidhas now been transformed to

the newEuropean Journal of Lipid Science and Technology. DGF also publishes the

German Standard Methods for the Analysis of Fats and Other Lipids(DGF Standard

Methods).

Professor Friedrich Spener, University of Mu ̈nster, Germany, is the current pre-

sident of DGF.

Further information can be found athttp://www.gdch.de/dgf/.