Univ.-Prof. David Berry, PhD

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Curriculum Vitae:

2003-2005 Undergraduate Researcher Bio-aerosol Science and Engineering Laboratory and Water Resources Program Rutgers University, USA
2005 B.S. in Bio-resource Engineering, Rutgers University, USA 
2006 M.S.E. in Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, USA 2005-2009 Graduate Student Researcher Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Michigan, USA 
2009 Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, USA
2009-2012 Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Microbial Ecology University of Vienna, Austria
2012-2016 Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science University of Vienna, Austria
2016-2017 Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science University of Vienna, Austria
2017 Habilitation (venia docendi) in Microbiology, University of Vienna, Austria
Since 2018 Professor* for Intestinal Microbiology (5-year professorship*) Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science University of Vienna, Austria
Since 2018 Operational director of the Joint Microbiome Facility of the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna
Since February 2022 Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science and the Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Vienna, Austria

Research Areas:

* Intestinal microbiology
* Microbial ecology and evolution
* Novel methods in environmental microbiology

“We live in an intimate symbiosis with our microbiome, the the diverse community of microorganisms that live in and on us. The microbiome plays an important role in human development and physiology, and we are working to understand how we can target microbiome functions to promote health". (David Berry)