Rudolf Krska

Career

• 2019 Head of the Institute of Bioanalytics & Agro-Metabolomics, Department IFA-Tulln, BOKU
• 2019 Head, IFA-Proficiency Testing Scheme for Water Analysis
• 2019 - 2024 Deputy Director of the Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), BOKU
• 2018 Jointly appointed Professor at the Institute for Global Food Security, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Queen´s University, Belfast, UK (under the World Leading Researcher Scheme)
• 2017 Head of Strategic Research (=Blue Area Leader), Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety and Innovation (FFoQSI)
• 2017 Guest Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, USA
• 2016 - 2019 Member of the BOKU Senate
• 2011 - 2017 Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Initiative "Bioresources & Technologies (BiRT) at BOKU/Tulln
• 2010 - 2015 Head of the Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), BOKU
• 2009 - 2010 (12 months) Acting Division Chief, Food Research Division, Health Canada, Ottawa
• 2008 Professor of Bioanalytics and Organic Trace Analysis, BOKU
• 2006 - 2007 (12 months) Research stay, Food Science Group, Central Science Laboratory, York, United Kingdom
• 2005 - 2009 Deputy Director of the Department for Agrobiotechnology (IFA-Tulln), BOKU
• 2002 - 2009 Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Mycotoxin Research
• 2001 - 2009 Co-Founder of the BOKU spin-offs Biopure Reference Materials (2001) and Quantas Analytics (2006) (all shares sold 2009)
• 1999 Habilitation in Analytical Chemistry, TU-Vienna (Assoc. Prof.)
• 1996 - 2019 Head of the Center for Analytical Chemistry at the Dep. IFA Tulln, BOKU
• 1994 - 1996 Head of the Working Group for Molecular Analysis at the Centre for Analytical Chemistry, IFA Tulln
• 1994 (3 months) Research stay, Food Reseach Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• 1993 Doctoral degree in Science, Ph.D., passed with distinction
• 1991 - 1994 Research Assistant at the Institute for Analytical Chemistry; TU-Vienna
• 1991 (2 months) Research stays: School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Fraunhofer Institute, Freiburg, BRD
• 1990 Diploma in Chemistry (Vienna University of Technology)
• 1990 - 1991 Research Assistant at the Institute for Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials; TU-Vienna
• 1988 - 1990 Contractual collaborator, ESW Consulting Wruss, Vienna
• 1984 - 1990 Study of Technical Chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology

Awards

• Year: 2024 Awards: World Mycotoxin Journal: Article of the Year Award
• Year: 2024 Awards: Die Presse: Nominierung als Österreicher des Jahres (Kategorie Forschung)
• Year: 2024 Awards: ScholarGPS: Most cited (Nr. 1) author in the field of "mycotoxins - life time achievement as highly ranked scholar (top 0.05%)
• Year: 2024 Awards: Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration
• Year: 2024 Awards: Nils Foss Excellence Prize 2024
• Year: 2023 Awards: Chemistry Leader Award 2023 (#6 in Austria, awarded by research.com)
• Year: 2023 Awards: Golden Ring of Honour of the City of Tulln
• Year: 2023 Awards: Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy
• Year: 2023 Awards: FFoQSI Benchmark Champion Award 2023 (10.000 €)
• Year: 2022 Awards: Outstanding Contribution Award, Journal of Science and Technology of Cereals, Oils, Foods, Academy of National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, Beijing, China.
• Year: 2021 Awards: Co-Winner of the American Chemical Society´s “Research Article of the Year Award” (AGRO division) J. Agric. Food Chem. 2020, 68, 12, 3868–3880
• Year: 2021 Awards: Ranked Nr. 3 expert in the area of Food Safety, based on number of citations among >100,000 experts worldwide (expertscape)
• Year: 2019 Awards: Fritz-Pregl-Medal for outstanding research in the field of food analysis (awarded by ASAC)
• Year: 2019 Awards: Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2019: identified by Clarivate Analytics as one of the world’s most influential contemporary researchers (top 1% ranking);
• Year: 2018 Awards: Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2018: identified by Clarivate Analytics as one of the world’s most influential contemporary researchers (top 1% ranking);
• Year: 2017 Awards: Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2017: identified by Clarivate Analytics as one of the world’s most influential contemporary researchers (top 1% ranking)
• Year: 2016 Awards: Appointment as Distinguished International Supervisor of the Institute of Food Science and Technology at CAAS, Beijing
• Year: 2016 Awards: BRAIN Award founded by Biomin and awarded at the World Nutrition Forum in Vancouver
• Year: 2016 Awards: Bürgerrecht der Stadt Tulln - "Honorary citizen" of Tulln
• Year: 2016 Awards: Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2016: identified by Thomson Reuters as one of the world’s most influential contemporary researchers (top 1% ranking)
• Year: 2015 Awards: Appointment as Distinguished Professor of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
• Year: 2015 Awards: Honorary Prize for outstanding scientific achievements (NÖ Würdigungspreis); awarded by the Governor of Lower Austria
• Year: 2015 Awards: Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2015: identified by Thomson Reuters as one of the world’s most influential contemporary researchers (top 1% ranking)
• Year: 2013 Awards: Ranked Nr.1 among the world´s most cited authors in the area of “mycotoxins” in the last decade (2004-2013). The database on mycotoxins included 5.570 authors and 7.634 SCI Papers (Web of Science).
• Year: 2013 Awards: Zsigmondy-Medal: Faculty Award of Merit of the Faculty of Technical Chemistry of the Vienna University of Technology
• Year: 2010 Awards: Recognition Award for outstanding achievement; awarded by Health Canada´s Food Directorate
• Year: 2006 Awards: Dr.Wolfgang Houska Award (50.000 €, 2nd rank) of the b&c Privatstiftung
• Year: 2000 Awards: Fritz Feigl Award of the Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry
• Year: 1994 Awards: Pro Analitica Award of the Institute for Analytical Chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology
• Year: 1993 Awards: Erwin Schrödinger Research Grant; awarded 1993 by the "Austrian Science Fund" (FWF)
• Year: 1993 Awards: Special Poster Award of the 9th International Conference on Fourier Transform Spectroscopy in Calgary, Canada
• Year: 1993 Awards: Mobility Grant for best PhD thesis of the year at TU Vienna; awarded by the Academic Working Party of the Vienna University of Technology
• Year: 1990 Awards: Special Award of the ERSTE Österreichischer Jugendpreis '90 for diploma thesis