S Husted

Biography

Professor Section for Plant and Soil Sciences

Research Interest

 My research is focusing on the functional role of trace elements in plants, including physiological and biochemical studies of manganese (Mn), zinc (Mn), iron (Fe) and copper (Cu) in plants. In the research group we have developed an advances and diverse ICP-MS based technolgy platform to study the chemical speciation of trace elements in plant tissue, with a special focus on linking chemical speciation with human bioavailability of Fe and Zn in plant based foods. Recently, we have initiated work on food authentication, where we develop multi-elemental and isotopic fingerprinting tools to determine the geographical origin and agricultural mangement form used during plant cultivation. Recently my research group has implemented the first Danish facilities for Laser Ablation (LA) and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) which allows quantitative analysis and bio-imaging of trace elements in plant solid samples. In recent years my research group has extensively used chemometric data analysis techniques to perform data mining of large and complex data matrices. EDITORIAL: Reviewer for several international journals, including: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy (JAAS), Metallomics, The Analyst, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Communications, Plant Physiology, Nature, Physiologia Plantarum, Annals of Botany, New Phytologist, Plant and Soil, Soil Use and Management, Reviewer for the Norwegian, Austrian and German Research Academies.