Vetmeduni: Teammitglieder

Evelyne Selberherr

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Team Leader

Assoz.Prof. Mag.med.vet. Evelyne Selberherr, PhD.
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Carina Gratz

PhD student

Carina Gratz, MSc.
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Carina completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biology and her Master’s degree in Microbial Ecology at the University of Vienna in 2025. Her Master’s thesis focused on the characterization of bacterial communities inhabiting individual clover root nodules, providing her with a strong foundation in microbial ecology, cultivation-based microbiology, and molecular methods. Since January 2026, Carina has been pursuing her PhD in the Selberherr Lab, where she adopts a One Health approach to investigate microbial contamination in farm drinking-water pipe systems and its potential links to post-weaning diarrhea in pigs. Her work seeks to generate knowledge that supports improved animal health, farm biosecurity, and sustainable livestock production.

Muhammad Sharjeel Chaughtai

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

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

Post-Doc

Cameron Strachan
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Cameron completed his Hon. B.Sc. in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2012, before working for two years in the area of functional metagenomics under Dr. Steven Hallam. Here, he studied aromatic compound modifying activities from microbial communities inhabiting coal beds. In 2014 he founded a company called Prospect Bio that leveraged functional metagenomic tools to develop genetic reporter assays in E.coli, which he worked on until 2018. In 2018, he started his PhD in the Selberherr Lab where he is studying microbial genomics in the rumen. Specifically, in collaboration with the Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety and Innovation (FFoQSI), he is studying the effects of mycotoxins on the rumen microbiome. Additionally, he is examining antibiotic resistance genes that are highly conserved between the rumen microorganisms and clinical pathogens, and exploring the physiology of recently cultivated commensal Campylobacter from the rumen epithelial wall.

Undergraduates

Theresa Behrendt

Alumni and Guests

Judith Allmer, Bachelor Student (Biomedicine and Biotechnology), 2026

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