Martin Wiedmann, Dr. Med. Vet, Ph.D.
Gellert Family Professor in Food Safety
Cornell University

Martin Wiedmann, Dr. Med. Vet, Ph.D. is the Gellert Family Professor of Food Safety at Cornell University. 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. 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. Martin is particularly well known for his work on control of Listeria monocytogenes transmission. His team has published > 500 peer reviewed publications, which have been cited >40,000 times. He and his team are regularly asked to help industry across the world with a range of microbial food safety and quality challenges. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), and the International Academy of Food Science and Technology.