On 12 November 2020, ISOFAR member and our long-time colleague and friend, Professor Johannes Kahl, died at the age of 52 after a long illness. Since 2016, he was Professor at the Faculty of Organic Agriculture at the University of Kassel (Germany) and head of the Department of Organic Food Quality. Prof. Kahl’s lectures on ‘Organic food system and sustainable diets’ were very popular among students.
He has conducted many projects, e.g. Susplus project within Erasmus Plus ‘Innovative Education towards Sustainable Food Systems’, ProOrg project within ERANET Horizon 2020 ‘Code of Practice for organic food processing’ and project from Ekhaga scientific foundation ‘Promoting human health and well-being by maintaining matrix related organic food qualities from field to fork’ and Sysorg project within ERANET Horizon 2020 ‘Organic agro-food systems as models for sustainable food systems in Europe and Northern Africa’.
As member of ISOFAR and Chairman of the Food Quality and Health association (FQH), he worked intensively throughout all these years organizing scientific workshops within the association, developing joint scientific publications.
Prof. Johannes Kahl was an outstanding scientist, an excellent teacher and a great friend.
Honor His Memory!