Walter Vetter is an Honorary Professor at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences. He received a Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1990 and a Doctorate grade from the University of Hohenheim, Germany, in 1993. A stipend grant from the Royal Norwegian Research Council enabled him to conduct research at the Norwegian Institute of Air Research (1991-1992). From 1993 to 2002 he was group leader at the Institute of Nutrition at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. In 1998, he defended his habilitation (second doctoral thesis) in food chemistry. Since 2002, he has held the chair of food chemistry at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. In 2017, he was appointed as the Director of the Institute of Food Chemistry at his university. His research areas are food, environmental and analytical chemistry, and topics include research on halogenated natural products and POPs, lipid analysis, countercurrent chromatography, enantiomer separation, and stable isotope analysis. In 2016, he received the Edward Chou Award (Chicago, IL), and in 2018, the Herbert J. Dutton Award (Minneapolis, MN).
