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Chaughtai Muhammad Sharjeel

PhD student
Muhammad Sharjeel Chaughtai
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Sharjeel holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree from the University College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Bahawalpur. Supported by a scholarship from the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD) and the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC), he is currently pursuing his PhD in the Selberherr Lab. His research focuses on investigating metabolically active microbes in food processing environments.
Viktoria Neubauer

Postdoc
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.
Moritz Hartmann

PhD student
Dipl.-Ing. Moritz Hartmann
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Moritz Hartmann completed his Bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Biotechnology and his Master’s degree in Food Science and Technology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. His Master’s thesis focused on the effects of wine production and novel fining agents on the residual concentrations of specific fungicides in red wine grapes. After graduating, he became a founding member of the quality management team at Gurkerl.at. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in the Selberherr Lab, where his research explores the impact of in-house cheese ripening cultures on the safety and quality of long-ripened hard cheeses.
Cameron Strachan
Undergraduates
Alumni and Guests
Franz-Ferdinand Roch, PhD student 2020-2025
Lisa Madl, Bachelor Student FH Wien, 2025
Robert Arne Potyka, Diploma student, 2024
Stefan Stöbert, Diploma student, 2024
Daniela Diepold, Diploma student and project employee, 2020-2023
Luisa Sontheimer, Diploma student, 2023
Tea Movsesijan, Master student, 2022
Narciso Martin Quijada, PostDoc 2018-2022
Rocio Olmo Lopez, PostDoc 2018-2022
Benjamin Zwirzitz, PhD student 2017-2021, PostDoc 2021
Stefanie Urimare Wetzels, PostDoc, 2016–2021
Sarah Ricci, Guest researcher from the Institute of Animal Nutrition and Functional Plant Compounds 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