Postdocs
Martin Quijada, Narciso
Dr. Narciso Martin Quijada, MSc.
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Narciso Martin Quijada gained his Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Salamanca (USAL, Spain) and his Master’s degree in Microbiology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM, Spain). After that, he did his PhD in Food Science and Biotechnology in the “Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León” (ITACyL, Valladolid, Spain) and the University of Burgos (UBU, Spain). His work focused on the bioinformatic analysis of microbial genomic data obtained by high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies, in particular on antimicrobial resistance genes and the development of bioinformatic tools for automating these analyses. Narciso is employed in the EU project ‘Microbiome Applications for Sustainable Food Systems through Technologies and Enterprise’ (MASTER), which is led by Paul Cotter (Teagasc, Ireland).
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Viktoria Neubauer
Mag.med.vet. Viktoria Neubauer, PhD.
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Viktoria Neubauer studied veterinary medicine at the Vetmeduni Vienna with externships in Canada and the United States. From 2015–2017 she did her PhD studies at the Institute for Animal Nutrition in collaboration with the Selberherr lab at the Unit for Food Microbiology (Vetmeduni Vienna), focusing on dairy cow nutrition. Then Viktoria has become a Postdoc in the Austrian Competence Center for Feed and Food Quality, Safety, and Innovation (FFoQSI). Her research interests are udder health, milk quality and milk processing, focusing on cheese, with the aim of linking cow health and production to milk quality parameters. As part of this, she is exploring the udder, milk, dairy environment, and cheese microbiome and analyzing it in a one-health context.
PhD students
Franz-Ferdinand Roch
Mag.med.vet. Franz-Ferdinand Roch, MSc.
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Franz-Ferdinand Roch worked as a biomedical technician in the pharmaceutical industry from 2006-2014 (Baxter Innovations GmbH and Savira Pharmaceuticals GmbH) and completed his MSc in Biomedical Sciences at the FH Campus Vienna in 2010. In 2014, he started studying veterinary medicine in Vienna and worked meanwhile as a biomedical technician at the Medical University Vienna and later as a research assistant in the Unit of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Veterinary Medicine. After graduating in 2020, he started his PhD in the Selberherr lab. His current research focuses on the microbiome on meat with special emphasis on bacterial-fungal interactions.
Cameron Strachan
Technicians
Sarah Thalguter
Sarah Thalguter, MSc.
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Sarah Thalguter studied Microbiology and Genetics (BSc) and Biological Chemistry with a focus on food chemistry (MSc) at the University of Vienna. She completed her Master’s thesis at the Unit of Food Microbiology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. For her Master’s thesis she inspected microbial contamination in the food-processing environment. In 2018 after finishing her Master’s she became a technical assistant at the Unit of Food Microbiology for the Austrian Competence Center for Feed and Food Quality, Safety and Innovation (FFoQSI). She is involved in research about microbiota in the food-processing environment and is very keen on laser microdissection and nucleic acid extraction methods.
Monika Dzieciol
Dr.rer.nat. Monika Dzieciol
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Undergraduates
Daniela Diepold
Alumni and Guests - last 5 years
Stefanie Urimare Wetzels (PostDoc, 2016–2021)
Sarah Ricci (Guest researcher from the Institute of Animal Nutrition and Functional Plant Compounds, Vetmeduni Vienna, 2019)
Isabel Rabanser (Diploma student, 2018)
Kristina Gense (Diploma student, 2017)
Felipe Machado de Sant'Anna (PhD candidate and guest researcher from the Department of Technology and Inspection of Products of Animal Origin, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2017)
Monika Handler (Diploma student, 2016)
Canan Keskinöz Linneweh (Technician, 2016)