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)
More information online
- Twitter: @mattitakubel
- LinkedIn: Täubel Martin
- ResearchGate: Martin Täubel