Doris Marko

Doris Marko is Professor of Food Chemistry at the University of Vienna (Austria) and head of the Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology. She studied Food Chemistry at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. She is a member of several national and international committees in the field of food safety. In her research strategy, she synergistically combines state-of-the-art analytics with toxicological/mechanistical approaches, to address actual questions of consumer safety. Actual fields of research include hazard characterization of emerging contaminants, the complex interaction of contaminants with potentially co-occurring bioactive food constituents or pharmaceutical drugs as well as novel strategies for risk assessment of chemical mixtures.