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Rudolf Krska

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Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr.techn. Rudolf Krska
Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics
Konrad-Lorenz-Straße 20, 3430 Tulln an der Donau
rudolf.krska@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-97301, 97302

ORCID: 0000-0001-6843-9755
ResearcherId : AGU-0340-2022
AuthorId : 7003506571

My Courses

classifications according to Statistics Austria:
Analytical chemistryAgricultural biotechnology

Research Focus

Analytical Chemistry, Food and Feed Safety, Mycotoxins

keywords

  • Bioanalytics
  • Organic trace analysis
  • Immunoassay development
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Fiber optics chemical infrared sensors
  • Detection of allergens in food
  • Quantification and strucural characterization of plant and microbial metabolites
  • Multi-analyt-methods (LC-MS/MS) for the simultaneous monitoring of food contaminants
  • Production and certification of reference materials
  • Design, organisation and evaluation of laboratory comparison studies
  • Food Analysis
  • Metabolomics based approaches to study plant-fungi interactions
  • Identification and quantification of appropriate biomarkers to study plant-fungi interactions

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

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