Martin Täubel

Martin Täubel

Name: Martin Täubel
Official title: senior researcher, team leader
Tel. +358 29 524 6466
E-mail: [email protected]

Expertise

  • indoor microbial exposure – assessment, beneficial and adverse health effects
  • the indoor microbiome
  • moisture damage and indoor microbes 
  • mycotoxins in indoor environments

Primary duties

  • Leading of the Indoor Air team at Environmental Health Unit
  • Research and expert work in the assessment of microbes, moisture damage and other indoor exposure and the related health effects

Education

  • PhD, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, Food and Biotechnology,  2005 
  • MSc,  University of Vienna, Microbiology, 2001

Professional background

  • Post-doctoral researcher, University of Eastern Finland, Food and Health Research Center 
  • Project manager, project scientist, Biomin Innovative Animal Nutrition GmbH (Austria)
  • PhD student, project scientist, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department Agrobiotechnology, IFA-Tulln, Environmental Biotechnology

Current projects (selected)

  • PROBIOM: Towards a Health Promoting Indoor Microbiome
  • REMEDIAL: Response of Indoor Microbiota to Moisture Damage in Buildings and Effects in Exposed Lung Tissue.
  • MIKOKO: Microbial exposures in moisture damaged schools – an occupational health risk for teachers

Publications (selected)

  • Indoor microbiota in severely moisture damaged homes and the impact of interventions. Microbiome 2017, 5:138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0356-5
  • Paediatric Asthma and the Indoor Microbial Environment. Current Environmental Health Reports 2016; 3: 238. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40572-016-0095-y
  • An Emerging Paradox: toward a better understanding of the potential benefits and adversity of microbe exposures in the indoor environment. Indoor Air 2017; 27(1):3-5. doi: 10.1111/ina.12344
  • Synergistic proinflammatory interactions of microbial toxins and structural components characteristic to moisture-damaged buildings. Indoor Air 2017; 27:13-23. doi: 10.1111/ina.12282
  • Application of the Environmental Relative Moldiness Index in Finland. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2016;  82(2): 578–584. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02785-15

Language skills

  • Finnish (fair)
  • English (excellent)
  • German (native)

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