Martin Wiedmann

Martin Wiedmann, Ph.D. was appointed to our Scientific Advisory Board on December 1 , 2020. Dr. Martin received a veterinary degree and a doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, and a Ph.D. in Food Science from Cornell, where he currently is the Gellert Family Professor of Food Safety. His research interests focus on farm-to-table microbial food quality and food safety and the application of molecular tools and quantitative and modelling approaches to study the transmission of foodborne pathogens and spoilage organisms, with a particular interest in Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes. His team has published > 350 peer reviewed publications, which have been cited >15,000 times.