News

  • August 2022 Congratulations to Yasmin Fareed who performed her master thesis under the supervision of Benedikt Warth and successfully defended it on Aug. 02. 
  • August 2022 To strengthen our Exposome Austria team we are hiring a project-oriented managing officer. Please apply via Email. More info available here.

  • July 2022 To strengthen our Exposome Austria team we are hiring a motivated and mass spec-affine postdoctoral researcher. More info here.

  • March 2022 On May 31 the Exposome Austria research infrastructure will be officially launched via an opening event at the University of Vienna. This is a public event and all interested stakeholders are most welcome! Please register early on: https://veranstaltung.univie.ac.at/exposome

  • January 2022 We are looking for a motivated student to perform a master thesis in polyphenol analytics in our group. More info here.
  • January 2022 We are looking for a motivated and mass spec affine postdoctoral researcher. More info here. Application site here.

  • November 2021 Congratulations to Mira for the "New Ideas Award" of the DoSChem (Doctoral School of Chemistry) for the project “Investigating environmental exposures to infants using a multi-omics approach”. We are excited for the upcoming innovative experiments with Martin Schaier from the Koellensperber Lab! See here for more information!

  • October 2021 Congratulations to Benedikt for winning a prestigious "Förderpreis" of the City of Vienna in the category "mathematics, informatics, natural sciences and technology"! Check out here
  • September 2021 Longterm team-member Dominik left for starting a great position in industry. He joined our lab in 2015 as a PhD student, finished his thesis "Innovative LC-MS/MS breast milk biomonioring: Assessing infant's and mother's exposure to mycotoxins" in 2020 and stayed another successful year as PostDoc in the team. For sure, he will be missed! We wish him all the best for his new job and life in Upper Austria!

  • May 2021 Welcome to visiting scientist and Ernst Mach fellow Kola Ayeni from Nigeria who´s joining the team of Benedikt Warth for 9 months. 
  • March 2021 On Tuesday, March 16, the wordwide first journal in the field of exposomics was launched by Oxford University Press. Among the eight Associate Editors is also Benedikt Warth of the Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology. For more information click here.
  • January 2021 On January 27 Benedikt Warth is guest speaker in a virtual research seminar hosted by the Social Exposome Cluster at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Check out this link to find out about how to join the Zoom meeting.

  • December 2020 Congratulations to the next graduate of the Food Chemistry master programme: Sadia Achmad successfully defended her master thesis entitled "Study on plant metabolites of prenylated flavanoids in fruits". She performed it at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) under the supervision of Michael Rychlik, Lance Buckett and Benedikt Warth.
  • December 2020 Congratulations to Benedikt Warth for receiving the "Feigl Preis" of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry (ASAC)!

  • November 2020 Congrats to Dominik Braun for winning the ASAC JunganalytikerInnen-Preis 2020 together with Sebastian Guntner from the JKU. The award was sponsered by "FTC-Forensisch-Toxikologisches Labor BgmbH", Vienna. The award ceremony took place online.

  • November 2020 Congratulations to Thomas Jamnik for successfully defending his master theses!

  • October 2020 Very glad being involved in this great METLIN initiative published in Nature Methods ... now facilitating exposomics research with many toxicants, contaminants, drugs, and xenobiotics (i.e. the #exposome)

  • September 2020 Very warm welcome to our new Erasmus Exchange MSc Student Yasmin Borutzki!
  • September 2020 Welcome back, Dominik Braun, now in a PostDoc-position!
  • September 2020 Very warm welcome to our new PhD Student Magdalena Krausova!
  • August 2020 Grateful for the chance to contribute to this Nature Methods paper form the September issue!

  • June 2020 Congrats to Dominik Braun for successfully defending his PhD-thesis "Innovative LC-MS/MS breast milk biomonioring: Assessing infant's and mother's exposure to mycotoxin." The thesis was supervised by Prof. Marko and Prof. Warth.
  • June 2020 Congratulations to Patrick Windisch for successfully defending his master thesis. He was supervised by Benedikt Warth and Dominik Braun.

 

  • March 2020 Very warm welcome to our new PhD Student Ian Oesterle!
  • January 2020: Very warm welcome to our new PhD Student Manuel Pristner!

  • November 2019 Graduation: We congratulate Vincent Lüttig for successfully graduating from the master programme Food Chemistry! He performed his master thesis about the effect of Alternaria toxins on the metabolome of rats by LC-HRMS under the supervision of Benedikt Warth.
  • November 2019 ORF Interview: Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, another interview of Benedikt Warth about the state of the art of the research about the exposome, to be seen at the ORF TVTHEK (in German, starting at 12:22).

  • November 2019: Plenary lecture of Assoc. Prof. Benedikt Warth and vivid discussion with Prof. Doris Marko at the 6. event "Umwelt in Gespräch" on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. "Umwelt in Gespräch" is a series of public discussions organised by the Environmental Sciences Research Network of the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Natural History Museum Vienna.
    You can find a review at the  Online Standard and the lecture of Prof. Warth on youtube.

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  • Aug. 2019: We congratulate our former PhD student Hannes Puntscher to his successfull defensio and graduation and wish him all the best for his future.

  • July 2019: Honoured to present our most recent research projects at the Yale School of Public Health and at a Gordon Research Conference. Great discussions with old and new friends and collaborators!
  • July 2019: We welcome our new Master Student Patrick Windisch and Erasmus Intern Ipek Savas!
  • Mar. 2019: We welcome our new Bachelor Student Natascha Stoirer!
  • Feb. 2019: Best Poster Award: Congratulations to Dominik Braun who won the "Best Poster Award" at the MassSpec-Forum 2019 in Vienna, Austria

  • Jan. 2019: Great to see that our current paper on combined breast cancer therapy was accepted and selected to be the cover paper of the January issue of Metabolites.
  • Jan. 2019: We welcome our Research Fellow from India Kausar Ansari!
  • Dec. 2018: Dominik’s first paper was accepted by Analytical Chemistry. Congrats! Open access via UNIVIE’s support.

  • Oct. 2018: We welcome our new Bachelor Student Maximilian Eiser and our new Master Student Vincent Lüttig!
  • Sept. 2018: Our research on untargeted mass spec screening in foodstuff was covered in a radio interview: download
  • May 2018: Congratulations to our Master Student Karin Preindl who won the "Best Presentation Award" at the JunganalytikerInnen Forum 2018! Great appreciation of three months of hard work.

  • May 2018: We welcome our new PhD Student Mira Flasch!
  • Feb. 2018: We welcome Karin Preindl as a new master student in our team. She will focus on endocrine active chemicals related to food.
  • Autumn 2017: New web page launched