Vetmeduni: Team members

Kathrin Kober-Rychli

Team Leader

Priv.-Doz. Dr.rer.nat. Kathrin Kober-Rychli
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Kathrin has studied chemistry at the University of Vienna. After her PhD and postdoc she moved 2009 to the Vetmed and started her research in food safety with the main focus on Listeria monocytogenes. 2021 she received the habilitation in “Molecular Food Microbiology and Zoonosis”

Eva Maria Voglauer

Postdoc

Eva M. Voglauer, PhD
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Eva has studied Biomedicine and Biotechnology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and has performed her PhD within the Austrian competence centre FFoQSI - Feed and Food Quality, Safety and Innovation. The focus of her research are biofilms in the food processing environment.

Nadja Pracser

Andreas Zaiser

Andreas Zaiser
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Technician

Sarah Thalguter

Research assistant

Sarah Thalguter, MSc
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Yasar Özge Delikkafa

Yasar Özge Delikkafa, MSc.
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PhD Student

Özge holds a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Genetic (Istanbul University, Turkey) and a Master of Science in Biological Science (University of Konstanz, Germany). The focus of her PhD thesis is the characterization of the Rhs insertion in Listeria monocytogenes.

Damien Ernst

Mag.med.vet. Damien Ernst
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PhD Student

Damien has studied Veterinary Medicine at the Vetmed and is part of the One Health PhD programme. His PhD project, which is a joined project with Lukas Schwarz from the University Clinic for Swine, aims to elucidate the role of pigs in L. monocytogenes epidemiology.

Sophie Liebert

Sophie Liebert
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Diploma student

Sophie is studying Veterinary Medicine at the Vetmeduni

Alumni of the last 5 years

Bence Molnar (2022-2023, master thesis, Molecular Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Immunobiology, University of Vienna)

Hui Min Katharina Ying (2022, bachelor thesis, Biomedical Science, FH Campus Wien, Austria)

Arkadiusz Zakrzewski (2021, ERASMUS internship, University of Warmia)

Antonio Lourenco (2020-2021, Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow, Teagasc, Ireland)

Anna Palmetzhofer 2020-2021, diploma thesis, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria

Samuel Taschler 2020, internship, Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Austria

Karola Pliem (2017-2020, diploma thesis, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Theresa Harm (2020, bachelor thesis, Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Eva Wagner (2015 -2020, PhD thesis and PostDoc, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Verena Jahn (2019-2020, bachelor thesis, Biology, University of Vienna, Austria)

Katharina Fischel (2019-2020, bachelor thesis and research assistant, Biology, University of Vienna, Austria)

Clara Beer (2019, bachelor thesis, Biology, University of Vienna, Austria)

Chiara Köcher (2017-2019, diploma thesis, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Nicole Rammer (2019, bachelor thesis, Biotechnical Processes, University of Applied Science, FH Wr Neustadt, Austria)

Verena Maurer (2019, bachelor thesis, Biomedical Science, FH Campus Wien, Austria)

Rebekka Leitner (2018-2019, bachelor thesis and research assistant, Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Elisa Grätschus (2017-2019, diploma thesis, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Clara Buxbaum (2017-2019, diploma thesis, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Andrea Schabauer (2015-2019, PhD thesis, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Lucie Pospíšilová (2018, internship, PhD student, Veterinary University of Brno, Czech Republic)

Luminita Ciolacu (2016-2018, Post Doc, maternity leave replacement)

Susanne Roth (2018, diploma thesis, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Magdalena Heninger (2018, diploma thesis, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)

Nina Mayer (2018, bachelor thesis, Biomedical Science, FH Campus Wien, Austria)

Daniela Fritz (2016-2017, master thesis, Molecular Microbiology, University of Vienna, Austria)

Amanda Hettiarachchi (2017, Master thesis, Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the Ghent University, Belgium)

Cornelia Lehensteiner (2017, bachelor thesis, Biomedical Science, FH Campus Wien, Austria)

Christoph Zutz (2010-2017, PhD and Postdoc, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and research and discovery platform BiMM-bioactive microbial metabolites)