Morten Munchow

Morten started his career in coffee in 2004 during a university project about 'teaching science' where Morten choose to teach the chemistry of espresso brewing to bariastas. During this project he came into contact with Jens Nørgaard and Martin Hildebrandt from Cafe Europa, who have been quite successful at the barista championships. Morten was assisting Troels O. Poulsen from Cafe Europa when he won the WBC in Seattle in 2005.

Morten has been investigating the biochemical aspects of cappuccino foam in corporation with the department of food science at the University of Copenhagen since 2004.

Morten was the first roast master in Kontra coffee and was in this position for two years. He was supervised by Kurt Dalsgaard who is one of the pioneering micro roasters in Denmark and now he uses his experience as roast master, his background as teacher and scientist to teach coffee roasting to home roasters and industrial roasters at London School of Coffee as well as he is travelling as a consultant for London School of Coffee to establish quality control at industrial coffee roasting companies.

Due to Mortens interest in medicine he is also teaching theory of science, research design, statistics and ethics at Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.