The microbiologist Prof. Dr. habil. Matthias Noll and his team work on microbial communities in both technical and natural habitats. These include food, biofilms, sewage treatment and biogas plants, water pipe systems, ticks, human skin, microbial wood decomposition in various land use properties and many other habitats. In addition, the antimicrobial efficacy of essential oils, wood preservatives, disinfectants and associated microbial adaptation are investigated.

Prof. Noll is part of the “One Health” research focus at Coburg University of Applied Sciences. In order to improve antimicrobial efficacy in the applications, the researchers use sensor technology and microfluidics to analyze surface insertion and modification, for example. Prof. Noll and his team have molecular biological and cultivation-based experience with pathogenic and apathogenic bacteria, archaea, fungi and yeasts. Prof. Noll is co-founder of the Institute for Bioanalytics, which has laboratories with modern measurement methods.

• Environmental Microbiology – Molecular Microbial Ecology
• Material resistance to microorganisms
• Food microbiology
• Bioanalytics

Within the university

• Head of degree program – Bioanalytics (Bachelor)
• Institute Director – Institute for Bioanalytics
• Laboratory Manager – Laboratory for Microbiology
• Member of the Doctoral Center Analytics4health

Outside the university

• Private lecturer at the University of Bayreuth

• since 2014: Private lecturer at the University of Bayreuth
• since 2014: Head of the Bachelor’s degree program in Bioanalytics
• 2014-2016: Program Director for the Master’s degree program in Bioanalytics
• 2012: Habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin, Department of Environmental Microbiology
• Since 2012: Professor at Coburg University of Applied Sciences, teaching biology and microbiology
• 2010-2012: Research assistant at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BFR), Berlin
• 2007-2010: Deputy working group leader at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin
• 2005-2006: Postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (Switzerland)
• 2004-2005: Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (Marburg),
• 2001-2004: Doctorate at the Philips University Marburg and at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology (Marburg)
• 1995-2001: Studied biology at the University of Kassel