- Chair: Jürgen König (Head of the VDS PhaNuSpo and Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna)
- Supervisors: Elke Heiß (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna)
- Examiners: Antonio Cuadrado (Department of Biochemistry, Medical School, Autonomous University of Madrid - UAM, Spain), Jakub Piwowarski (Microbiota Lab of the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland) and Arvand Haschemi (Department of Laboratory Medicine of the Medical University of Vienna, Austria)