MEBAK welcomed a new member at its 107th meeting in Erding. Dipl.-Ing. Fabian Webersinke, BSc, heads the central laboratory of Brau Union Österreich AG and brings expertise in brewery analysis, quality management and data-driven analytics.
Fabian Webersinke studied Food Science and Biotechnology and Food Science and Technology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). He has more than ten years of experience in the brewing industry. His areas of expertise are brewery and food analysis, brewing technology, and laboratory and quality management. He has also gained hands-on experience in craft brewing at several breweries and in product and packaging development.
Today he heads the central laboratory of Brau Union Österreich AG in Linz, which is accredited to EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017. Before that, as Quality Management Representative, he was responsible for developing the company’s quality management system. As an auditor for testing laboratories, he has carried out more than 50 internal and external audits, several of them abroad in Europe and Asia.
His work focuses particularly on data-driven methods in analytics and chemometrics. These include design of experiments, statistical simulation, predictive modelling, ensemble methods and meta-learning, especially in combination with NIR spectroscopy. At MEBAK’s 107th meeting in Erding on 30 October 2026, his guest lecture “Chemometric Methods and Data-Driven Modelling in Brewery Analysis” showed what these approaches can offer quality assurance in the brewery laboratory. Following his talk, he was unanimously admitted as a member of MEBAK.
With his experience in method development, laboratory accreditation and data analysis, Fabian Webersinke is a valuable addition to MEBAK’s methods work. We warmly welcome him and look forward to working together!
