Victor Cotea successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled “The removal of volatile phenols from Brettanomyces-contaminated wine using Molecularly lmprinted Polymers” on February 09, 2022 at Hochschule Geisenheim University.

His Doctorate was supervised by Prof. Dr. Monika Christmann, Department of Enology, Hochschule Geisenheim University and Prof. Dr. Sylvia Schnell, Faculty 09,  General and Soil Microbiology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen and jointly evaluated together with Prof. Dr. Stamatina Kallithraka, Dep. Food Science & Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.