About me
Dr. Yu Wang is an Associate Professor of Food Chemistry at the University of Florida’s Citrus Research and Education Center. Her research has focused on flavor chemistry and natural products chemistry, emphasizing the flavor (aroma and taste) of fruits, herbs and other agricultural commodities, as well as flavor modulators. She earned her Ph.D. in Flavor Chemistry at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She received postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on “Omics” techniques (proteomics, lipidomics and metabolomics). She received the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to work on the taste modulators at the Technical University of Munich then became the Flavor Chemistry Manager at Mars Chocolate Inc., working in global R&D while directing flavor application and modulation.