News
New professorship endowed by Mondi
We are glad to pronounce, that our institute, in particular Prof. Erich Leitner, got one of two professorships endowed by the Graz University of Technology and Moni Group. The professorship targets the research of Food Contact Materials as well as the trainig of young talents in business and science.
Invited lectures
Erich Leitner gave invited lectures at the Food Safety Summit 2018 in Mumbai, India (26th October) and in Singapore (29th October) on the European perspective on food safety and analytical strategies and on mineral oil contamination in food at the Analytica China in Shanghai (1st November).
Niklas Pontesegger awarded with the GIRACT First Year PhD Bursary
Niklas Pontesegger was awarded with the First Year PhD Bursary within the GIRACT European PhD in Flavour Research Programme!
The Giract programme aims to promote flavour research amongst PhD students in Europe, which is supported by seven industry sponsors. Niklas was one of the six selected students from different research institutions from all over Europe. Congratulations Niklas!
Find more information here
Congratulations to Tobias Burger, Irene Dalfen and Tanja Rappitsch!
They just finished their PhD on: Porphyrin-based Metal-Organic Frameworks for Optical Oxygen Sensing (Tobias Burger), Optical Oxygen Sensing with Porous and
Non Porous Matrix Materials: Adapting to New Challenges (Irene Dalfen) and (Aza)-BODIPYs: A Versatile and Flexible Platform for Optical Sensing Materials (Tanja Rappitsch). They did an amazing job - thank you for all the funny moments during the past. We wish you all the best for your future and we hope to see you sometimes again! :)
We will miss you!
Summer School 2022 "Food Science and Culinary Arts - from Field to Meal"
July 16th-26th 2022
After a two-year break due to Covid, the Summer School "Food Science and Culinary Arts - from Field to Meal" took place between July 16th and 26th. The host of the summer program was the California State University, Fresno. During the eleven days, the 13 participants from different countries learned a lot about food production in California. Read more[...]
Summer School 2019 "Food Science and Culinary Arts - from Field to Meal"
July 9th-21st 2019
The summer school on “Food Science and Culinary Arts – from Field to Meal” was held at our institute for the second time in cooperation with the University of Arkansas. Together with 10 participants from different countries, four students from our institute learned about food production including food safety and food processing. Read more[...]
EUROoCO 2019 - 2nd European Organ-on-Chip Conference, 2-3 July 2019, Graz, Austria
The EUROoC conference aims to gather the research leaders in the emerging field organs-on-chip (OoC) with a special focus on young and upcoming scientists. The extremely interdisciplinary field of OoC research is rapidly growing while new and innovative systems are constantly being developed. However, a variety of engineering challenges are remaining, which the OoC field has to address as a whole to enable a sustainable growth of this breakthrough technology. Read more [...]
Weurman Flavour Research Symposium
In memory of Cornelius Weurman, a pioneer of flavour research, the Weurman Flavour Research Symposium has become one of the most important international conferences on all relevant topics from the field of flavour science. Since 1975, the Weurman Flavour Research Symposium has been a unique platform for flavour scientists from all over the world offering the opportunity to discuss recent trends and developments in the field of flavour research. Read more [...]