Karin Möstl qualified from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Austria) in 1977 and obtained her DVM in 1978. In the same year she became assistant lecturer at the Institute of Virology of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, where she obtained her habilitation in Virology in 1991 (“Pathogenesis, diagnosis and prevention of coronavirus infections”) and was appointed associate professor. Part of this work (“Porcine coronaviruses in Austria”) was awarded by the Austrian Association of Veterinarians.
From 1991 to 1996 she was head of the Institute of Virology and since 2004 after reorganisation of the department she has the position of head of the “Clinical Virology” of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. She did some postgraduate studies in Budapest, Ghent and Zürich. From 1998 to 2000 she carried out expert work for the EU about the geographical risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
Her research interests include virus infections of cats and dogs, especially coronaviruses, as well as pestivirus infections in ruminants. Additionally she has a special interest in teaching Veterinary Virology.
From 1999 to 2008 she was editor-in-chief of “Wiener Tierärztliche Monatsschrift – Veterinary Medicine Austria”. Since September 2008, she is Vice Dean for Study Affairs of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.
She is married to a Veterinarian and has one daughter.