Univ. Professor,
Affiliation: Department of Food Science & Technology (www.boku.ac.at/dlwt),
BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Head of „Food Quality Assurance Division“.

Born in 1954

Education:

• 1980: Dipl.Ing. in Food & Biotechnology
• 1983: Dr. rer. nat. techn.
• 1989: Dr. habil.
• 1995: Assoc. Univ. Professor at BOKU, Vienna
• 1995: Nationally authorized expert for the microbiological examination of foods
• since 2004: Full (Univ.) Professor for “Food Quality Assurance” at BOKU, Vienna.

Functions (selected):

• President of the Austrian Association of Food and Biotechnologists
• President Int. Society of Milk Science
• Expert Member International Dairy Federation
• Receiving Editor in FEMS Microbiology Letters
• Editorial Board Member „Food Sci. Technol.“, multiple Peer Reviewerships in several international journals.
• Membership in several scientific societies
• Authorized expert for the examination of foods
• University lectures: „Hygiene“, “Quality Management“, „Food Safety and Risk Management“ at BOKU;  „General Microbiology and Hygiene“ at the Faculty of  Natural Sciences and Mathematics (Pharmaceutical Sciences), University of Vienna; Safety in the Food Chain (coordinator of international Master Sci. curriculum, Euroleague of Life Science Universities)

Scientific activities and expertises: Food safety, food hygiene, optimisation and quality assurance of  foods, functional food, pro- and prebiotic research, microbiolocal quality factors of food and  pharmaceutical products, food-GI tract interactions, validation of microbiological
analytic methods, development and standardisation of  improved analytical tools, dairy hygiene,  >160 scientific publications (selection see below), several invited lectures lectures (national, international), contractor and coordination of national and international research projects, recent successful EU projects involved with own research teams: COMIDAIRY, PROBIOTICS, ACE ART, GABRIEL,MONIQA, several industrial projects (product development, production hygiene etc.)