Nicolai Zederkopff Ballin 

Nicolai Zederkopff Ballin is a Senior Advisor in the Section of Food Chemistry at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (DVFA), specialising in food authenticity and food fraud. He has an MSc in biochemistry and a PhD in food science from the University of Copenhagen. His doctoral research developed analytical methods to fight food fraud, with a focus on meat and meat products, casein and milk powder. He worked as an analytical chemist at the DVFA from 2002 to 2016, then spent three years in the Fraud Detection and Prevention unit of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Geel, Belgium, before returning to the DVFA in 2019. His research covers species identification in meat, fish and plant foods, targeted and non-targeted authentication methods, and patterns in official food control data. He is a member of the CEN TC 460 (Food Authenticity) working groups on terminology and on the validation of non-targeted method