Project Scientist
University Of California, USDA
Dr. Hampel is a Food Chemist at the Department of Nutrition at the University of California Davis, CA, located at the USDA/ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center. Her research encompasses food chemistry, molecular biology, and nutrition, and included method development and studies on natural compounds with potential health benefits in each area. Within the field of nutrition, her focus is method development for nutrient analyses in human milk and plasma/red blood cells/bwhole blood to assess micronutrient deficiencies in mostly low-and middle-income countries. Her extensive background in analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology provides a wide spectrum of analytical and bioanalytical tools for developing, evaluating, optimizing and validating methodological techniques.