Keynote Speaker

190 peer-reviewed publications (accepted or printed); 37 non-refereed original article or book chapters, co-editor of two books. These publications were cited more than 5000 times (h-index of 44; Scopus, November 2016). 78 invited oral presentations at national and international symposia, academic institutions, or industry workshops

Associate Editor of “Frontiers in Microbiology” (since 2010); member of the editorial board of “Food Microbiology” (Since 2010); “Applied and Environmental Microbiology” (2013 – 2019); Food Research International (since 2014); and International Journal of Food Microbiology (since 2016).

Member of the NSERC Evaluation group 1502 (Biological Systems and Functions, 2016 – 2018); ad hoc reviewer for the ETH Zurich World Food System Center (Switzerland), the Hercules Foundation, Belgium, the FWF Wissenschaftsfonds, Austria, the BBSRC, U.K, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Graduate Teaching and Supervision of graduate students:

Supervisor of 22 Ph.D. students and 16 M.Sc. students graduated at the Technische Universität München and the University of Alberta. External examiner for theses submitted to the Universita’ degli Studi di Foggia, the University of Helsinki, the Université Laval, the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, the University of Auckland, and Victoria University, Melbourne.

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