George Gunn

WG1 leader
+441463246060
george.gunn@sruc.ac.uk
SRUC, Inverness, United Kingdom
www.sruc.ac.uk

George is a SRUC Professor of Population Medicine and Zoonoses, a SRUC Research Team Leader and Head of Veterinary Epidemiology based at SRUC, Inverness.

Jörn Gethmann

WG1 co-leader
+493835171858
joern.gethmann@fli.de
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany
www.fli.de

Jörn works at Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, Institute of epidemiology as senior scientist. His main area of work are animal health economics and disease surveillance with a focus on Bluetongue disease and Bovine Viral Diarrhoea.

Madeleine Henry

WG1 co-leader
+44 (0)1463 246072
madeleine.henry@sruc.ac.uk
SRUC, Inverness, United Kingdom
www.sruc.ac.uk

Madeleine worked as a vet in mixed farm/companion animal practice in the UK, for 4 years. After completing an MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health she joined SRUC as a veterinary epidemiologist with a focus on zoonoses, including E. coli O157 and Fasciola hepatica, and also on antimicrobial usage/resistance in livestock species.

Jaka Jakob Hodnik

MC substitute
+38630693539
jaka.hodnik@vf.uni-lj.si
University of Ljubljana, Veterinary faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.vf.uni-lj.si

Jaka is a PhD student and he works on ruminant health care and their diseases.

Sam Strain

WG1 co-leader
+447780477184
sam.strain@animalhealthni.com
Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland, Dungannon, United Kingdom
www.animalhealthni.com

Leading on the development, provision and coordination of non EU regulated disease control programmes within Northern Ireland.

Gerdien van Schaik

WG2 leader
+31570660352
g.v.schaik@gdanimalhealth.com
Department of Farm Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
www.uu.nl

Gerdien is a veterinary epidemiologist. She holds a chair in Monitoring and Surveillance of Farm Animal Health. She is especially interested in quantitative methods for surveillance.

Céline Faverjon

WG2 co-leader
+33478086449
celine@ausvet.eu
Ausvet Europe, Lyon, France
www.ausvet.eu

Her research interests focus on integrated diseases surveillance systems. Céline is especially working on questions related to (big) data access, validation and integration, and methods to combine multiple sources of information.

Aurélien Madouasse

WG3 leader
+33240687628
aurelien.madouasse@oniris-nantes.fr
INRAE & Oniris, BIOEPAR, Nantes, France
https://www6.angers-nantes.inrae.fr/bioepar

Aurélien works on epidemiological surveillance and disease detection in cattle. He uses statistical models extensively with a keen interest for those with a Bayesian flavour.

Eleftherios Meletis

WG3 co-leader
+306949083943
elmeletis@uth.gr
Faculty of Public and One Health, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece
https://www.pubhealth.uth.gr/

Eleftherios is specialised in the development and application of Bayesian modelling and Deep Learning algorithms in the evaluation of diagnostic tests and true prevalence estimation.

John Berezowski

WG4 leader
+41316315738
john.berezowski@vetsuisse.unibe.ch
Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland
www.vphi.ch

John leads a small group doing research in health surveillance. He is a veterinarian (DVM) and epidemiologist (PhD) with experience in all aspects of veterinary public health, with a focus on animal health surveillance and animal health surveillance system design.

Luís Pedro Carmo

WG member
0041 31 631 57 33
luis.gomesdocarmo@vetsuisse.unibe.ch
Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
www.vphi.ch

Luis is a veterinary epidemiologist with an interest on surveillance, integrated approaches to health, transdisciplinary methods and antimicrobial use.

Maria Guelbenzu

WG4 co-leader
+353873513391
mguelbenzu@animalhealthireland.ie
Animal Health Ireland, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland
www.animalhealthireland.ie

Maria is Animal Health Ireland’s Programme manager for BVD and IBR. She has experience on large animal disease diagnosis and surveillance, and the development and implementation of disease control programmes.

Tanja Knific

WG5 leader & Science communication manager
University of Ljubljana, Veterinary faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
+38614779840
tanja.knific@vf.uni-lj.si
www.vf.uni-lj.si

Tanja is a young researcher working in the field of veterinary epidemiology and economics. She is especially interested in quantitative methods and risk assessment.

Lina Costa

WG5 co-leader
+351965147360
lina_costa@ipportalegre.pt
Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Elvas, Portugal
www.ipportalegre.pt

Lina is a veterinary practitioner in cooperation, in small animals and livestock clinic and surgery (CLILEGRE – Veterinary Hospital, Portalegre – Portugal; 1998 to Present) and assistant teacher in the Department of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences (Degree in Veterinary Nursing; 2004 to Present). She is a PhD student in University of Cordoba, Spain; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, research in biosciences and agro-food sciences (Caseous lymphadenitis and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis).

Eglé Rapaliuté

MC substitute
+37062129716
egle.rapaliute@lsmu.lt
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LUHS), Veterinary Academy, Kaunas, Lithuania
https://lsmuni.lt/en/

Eglé is a veterinarian and a postgraduate student of veterinary epidemiology at LUHS. Her current work is focused on EBL surveillance of Lithuania.

Mickael Pero

Science officer
+3225333852
mickael.pero@cost.eu
COST Association, Brussels, Belgium
www.cost.eu

Carmencita Malimban

Administrative officer
+3225333842
carmencita.malimban@cost.eu
COST Association, Brussels, Belgium
www.cost.eu

Aurore Carcel

Administrative grant manager
+33240682806
aurore.carcel@oniris-nantes.fr
INRA & Oniris, BIOEPAR, Nantes, France
www.inrae.fr

Administrative grant manager of the COST Sound Control. I work as a support officer to research projects in collaboration with scientists.

Žaklin Acinger-Rogić

MC member
00385 1 6443 839
zaklin.acinger@mps.hr
Veterinary and Food Safety Directorate General, Ministry of Agriculture, Zagreb,  Croatia
www.veterinarstvo.hr

Žaklin is a Senior advisor – specialist for animal health; veterinarian with 25 years wide range working experience out of which 13 years in veterinary administration in the animal health field: veterinary epidemiology – control, eradication, surveillance and monitoring programmes

Estelle Ågren

MC member
+46 18 674000
Estelle.agren@sva.se
National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
www.sva.se

Veterinary epidemiologist primarily working with zoonotic infections, specialised in design and evaluation of surveillance. Salmonellainfections in cattle with occurrence, risk-factors and control measures has been a focus for my research.

Mentor Alishani

MC observer
+383 44 161 060
mentor.alishani@uni-pr.edu
Veterinary Department of the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary, University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo
https://www.uni-pr.edu/

Mentor is an Assistant Professor working in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, with an experience in animal infectious disease and surveillance programs in Kosovo.

Alberto Allepuz

MC substitute
+34935811047
alberto.allepuz@uab.cat
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
www.uab.cat

Epidemiologist involved in research projects and teaching. Interest on contributing to the prevention, control and eradication of diseases through the application of epidemiological methods and multidisciplinary approaches.

Fredrik W Andersen

MC substitute
+4722778141
fread@mattilsynet.no
Norvegian Food Safety Authority, Brummundal, Norway
www.mattilsynet.no

Ramūnas Antanaitis

WG member
+37067349064
Ramunas.Antanaitis@lsmuni.lt
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
http://www.lsmuni.lt/

Work experience with ruminants. Veterinary Practice.

Tiina Autio

MC substitute
+358447201492
tiina.autio@ruokavirasto.fi
Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira, Helsinki, Finland
www.ruokavirasto.fi

Senior researcher, bacteriology, diagnostics of infectious cattle diseases.

Ana Balseiro

MC member
+34987291331
abalm@unileon.es
University of León, Animal Health Department, León, Spain
www.veterinaria.unileon.es

Ana is a Veterinary Pathologist for the Animal Health Department (University of León, Spain); a job which involves carrying out research projects and diagnostic pathology on domestic animals and wildlife.

Maria Serena Beato

WG member
075-343234
ms.beato@izsum.it
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale, Perugia, Italy
https://www.izsum.it

Maria Serena is a veterinary virologist with experience on animal influenza. She has experience in diagnostics and research (in vivo and in vitro) of animal viral diseases (serology and virology), development and validation of tests and Veterinary Biobanking.

Marit Biesheuvel

WG member
+31570660449
m.biesheuvel@gdanimalhealth.com
GD Animal Health, Deventer, Netherlands
www.gdanimalhealth.com

Veterinary epidemiologist with an interest in quantitative methods focussing on cattle health.

Jonas Brock

WG member
+49 176 786 108 31
jbrock@animalhealthireland.ie
Animal Health Ireland, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland
www.animalhealthireland.ie

In the framework of his work, Jonas develops sophisticated epidemiological models that are used to support the decision-making process in the surveillance and control of diseases in cattle populations.

Alfonso Carbonero

WG member
+34957218725
sa1camaa@uco.es
University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
www.uco.es

Alfonso has experience in epidemiological studies. He is mainly focussed to identify risk factores associated to several infectious diseases (Campylobacteriosis, viral agents of Bovine Respiratory Diseases, agent responsible for reproductive disorders in bovine, etc).

Jordi Casal

MC substitute
+34935811047
jordi.casal@uab.cat
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
www.uab.cat

Veterinary epidemiology, with special interest on disease transmission and surveillance.

Enver Cavusoglu

MC member
+902242941285
envercavusoglu@gmail.com
Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
www.uludag.edu.tr

Enver has been working on farm animal production and welfare. Furthermore, he is interested in Precision Livestock Farming.

Ilias Chaligiannis

MC substitute
+306948174774
halijohn27@hotmail.com
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Veterinary Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
www.auth.gr

Iskra Cvetkovikj

MC member
+38923240700
iskra@fvm.ukim.edu.mk
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Skopje, North Macedonia
www.ukim.edu.mk

Iskra is an Assistant Professor in Microbiology and Immunology. Her main area of work is diagnosis of infectious diseases of animals.

Michal Czopovicz

MC member
+48 22 593 61 11
michal_czopowicz@sggw.edu.pl
Division of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, Warsaw, Poland
http://wmw.sggw.pl/en/

I’m a veterinary epidemiologist and practicing veterinarian. I graduated from the Warsaw Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Poland) in 2007, in 2013 I defended the doctorate in veterinary epidemiology, and in 2019 I received habilitation (post-doctoral qualification) in animal infectious diseases. My scientific interests embrace biostatistical and epidemiological analyses of medical data, and infectious diseases of dogs, cats, goats, and sheep. I’ve been a diplomate of the European College of Small Ruminant Health Management since 2014. In my clinical work I focus mainly on internal medicine and infectious diseases of dogs, cats and small ruminants.

Ivana Davidov

MC substitute
+381216610628
ivana.davidov@polj.edu.rs
Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad, Serbia
www.uns.ac.rs

Ivana is an Associate Professor at University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Veterinary Medicine. Her expertise and field of work is animal pathology.

Gary Delalay

MC member
+41 58 467 62 93
gary.delalay@blv.admin.ch
Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, Division of Animal Health, Bern, Switzerland
https://www.blv.admin.ch/blv/en/home.html

Gary is a resident of the European College of Veterinary Public Health working for several projects at the FSVO, mainly in the field of animal health but also in the area of safety.

Marc Dispas

MC member
+3223790402
marc.dispas@sciensano.be
Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium
www.sciensano.be

Igor Djadjovski

MC substitute
+38923240755
igordz@fvm.ukim.edu.mk
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Skopje, North Macedonia
www.ukim.edu.mk

Igor is an Assistant Professor in Internal diseases in ruminants and Clinical examination of farm animals. He is also a Department Head of the Laboratory for Serology and Molecular Diagnostic and Laboratory for TSE.

Katarzyna Dudek

MC substitute
+48818893021
katarzyna.dudek@piwet.pulawy.pl
National Veterinary Research Institute, Department of Cattle and Sheep Diseases, Pulawy, Poland
www.piwet.pulawy.pl

Katarzyna works on ruminant mycoplasmosis, mainly Mycoplasma bovis infection and veterinary immunology.

Nils Fall

WG member
Sweden

Jenny Frössling

MC substitute
+4618674000
jenny.frossling@sva.se
National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Uppsala, Sweden
www.sva.se

Veterinary epidemiologist with expertise in surveillance design and evaluation, disease outbreak preparedness, and epidemiological investigations related to absent or endemic animal infections. Planning and implementation of research and development projects within this field.

Anton Gerilovych

MC observer
+380677181704
antger2011@gmail.com
National Scientific Center “Institute for Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine”, Kharkiv, Ukraine
www.kompass.com

Author and co-author of 14 diagnostic PCR-based diagnostics kits for detection of cattle, porcine and poultry pathogens, 15 method guidelines, 19 patents of Ukraine, more than 120 papers and abstracts, devoted to molecular diagnostics, epidemiology. Expertise area: molecular epizootiology, molecular diagnostics of viral and bacterial animal infections, recombinant DNA biotechnologies, biosafety and security.

David Graham

MC member
+353872382779
dgraham@animalhealthireland.ie
Animal Health Ireland, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland
www.animalhealthireland.ie

Development and implementation of national programmes to address economically important diseases of non-regulated diseases of livestock.

Petter Hopp

MC substitute
+4747415146
petter.hopp@vetinst.no
Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Section of epidemiology, Oslo, Norway
www.vetinst.no

Petter has a PhD in epidemiology on studies on scrapie in Norwegian sheep. He works mainly on design, reporting from and evaluation of surveillance programmes for infectious diseases in production animals and have a particular interest in using new methods to make the surveillance programmes more cost-effective.

Hans Houe

MC member
+4535333014
hans@sund.ku.dk
University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
www.ku.dk

He is Professor in Veterinary Epidemiology and Leader of the Section for Animal Welfare and Disease Control.

Elena Irimia

WG member
021 350 1026
ela.irimia91@yahoo.com
Research and Development Institute for Bovine, Balotesti, Romania
http://www.icdcb.ro/

Elena has a Bachelor degree in Veterinary Medicine (since 2017), and was recently enrolled for her PhD studies at the Agronomic University of Agricultural and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest (2019). Her PhD Thesis will follow factors that influence un-weaned calves productivity and health. She started her research career at the Research and Development Institute since July 2019, when she was employed as Assistant Researcher in Animal nutrition, physiology and fodder base laboratory.

He is Professor in Veterinary Epidemiology and Leader of the Section for Animal Welfare and Disease Control.

Jožica Ježek

MC substitute
+38614779221
jozica.jezek@vf.uni-lj.si
University of Ljubljana, Veterinary faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.vf.uni-lj.si

Jožica is an Assistant professor working on Department for health care of ruminants. Her teaching and research work is focused on diseases of ruminants.

Malin Jonsson

MC member
+4793086902
malin.jonsson@vetinst.no
Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Section for epidemiology, Oslo, Norway
www.vetinst.no

Animal Health surveillance, epidemiology, zoonoses.

Ramon A. Juste

MC member
+34944034300
rjuste@neiker.eus
NEIKER, Derio, Spain
www.neiker.eus

Epidemiology, pathology and immunology of slow infections. Vaccine development and testing.

Jaroslaw Kaba

MC member
+48509835711
jaroslaw_kaba@sggw.pl
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Warsaw, Poland
www.sggw.pl

Head of the Laboratory of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Research topics – epidemiology of infectious and parasitic diseases of farm animals and small ruminant medicine.

Emmanouil Kalaitzakis

WG member
+302310994454
ekalaitzakis@vet.auth.gr
Clinic of Farm Animals, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
https://www.auth.gr/en

Ruminant Internal Medicine, Clinical diagnosis on farm animals, Metabolic and infectious diseases of cattle.

Jasmeet Kaler

WG member
jasmeet.kaler@nottingham.ac.uk
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
www.nottingham.ac.uk

Cattle and Sheep epidemiology, data analytics and predictive modelling (Machine learning), precision livestock, sensor data algorithms. Stakeholder decision making using health psychology and sociological frameworks, qualitative (interviews/focus groups/thematic analysis) and quantitative methods (Choice modelling, latent class).

Selçuk Kaplan

MC member
+902822504716
skaplan@nku.edu.tr
Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Genetics, Tekirdağ, Turkey
www.nku.ed.tr

His scientific expertise is Molecular Genetics. Nowadays, Selçuk is not interested only in serotyping and molecular identifications of microorganisms such as L. monocytogenes and Salmonella spp. but also in detect the antibiotic resistance of these microorganisms.

Sara Kjellsdotter

WG member
+46104710706
sara.kjellsdotter@vxa.se
Växa, Roma, Sweden
www.vxa.se

Sara is a veterinarian with a PhD in Animal Science focusing on investigating an antigen treatment of gastrointestinal parasites in sheep. Current field of work: animal health surveillance and prevention of disease in cattle.

Nada Knezevic

MC member
+38548651267
nada.knezevic@podravka.hr
Podravka Food Industry, Koprivnica, Croatia
www.podravka.com

Nada is a PhD of biotechnical sciences, food technology and works in a large Food Company. As a director of the Regulatory Affairs Department in R&D, she and her team are responsible for product registration on several markets and monitoring of food-veterinary legislation in over 50 countries where they export their products. The import/export of animals and animal products and the legislation related to this issue are their priority.

Xhelil Koleci

MC member
0684013786
xhelil.koleci@ubt.edu.al
Agricutural University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
www.ubt.edu.al

His teaching and research work is focused on Veterinary Epidemiology, animal and zoonotic Infectious Disease, Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Disease Control.

Polychronis Kostoulas

WG3 co-leader
+306977881857
pkost@vet.uth.gr
University of Thessaly, Faculty of Health Sciences, Karditsa, Greece
www.vet.uth.gr

Bayesian models in Epidemiology with primary focus on the development and application of latent class methods for the evaluation of diagnostic tests and the estimation of disease prevalence.

Kaspars Kovalenko

MC member
+37129344433
kkovalenko@inbox.lv
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Jelgava, Latvia
www.llu.lv

DVM, Dr.med.vet., Kaspars Kovaļenko, dean and associated professor of Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. His scientific interests are associated with animal infectious diseases, microbiology, antimicrobial resistance in animal population and in food chain.

Elsa Leclerc Duarte

MC substitute
+351266760859
emld@uevora.pt
University of Évora, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Évora, Portugal
www.uevora.pt

Elsa lectures infectious diseases and microbiology to veterinary students and she is currently the head of the PhD programme in Veterinary Science. Her research interests include mycobacterial diseases, fungal diseases, mycotoxins and infectious diseases of wildlife.

Thibaut Lurier

WG member
France

Alvydas Malakauskas

MC member
+370 37 362383
alvydas.malakauskas@lsmuni.lt
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Veterinary Academy, Kaunas, Lithuania
http://www.lsmuni.lt/

Alvydas is veterinary epidemiologist. He is especially interest in surveillance and control of infectious and parasitic diseases of livestock.

Alvydas Malakauskas

MC member
+370 37 362383
alvydas.malakauskas@lsmuni.lt
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Veterinary Academy, Kaunas, Lithuania
http://www.lsmuni.lt/

Alvydas is veterinary epidemiologist. He is especially interest in surveillance and control of infectious and parasitic diseases of livestock.

Madalina Mincu

WG member
+40760072452
madalinamincu8@gmail.com
Research and Development Institute for Bovine Balotesti, sos. Bucuresti-Ploiesti, km 21, 077015, Ilfov, Romania.
http://www.icdcb.ro/

DVM Madalina MINCU graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest in 2018. In October 2019 she started working at the Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences – Research and Development Institute for Bovine Balotesti, joining the animal welfare and behaviour group as a Research Assistant. Her research is focused on the implications that animal behavioural reactivity has on production and reproduction efficiency.

Kerli Mõtus

MC member
+3727313219
kerli.motus@emu.ee
Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Tartu, Estonia
www.emu.ee

Her main expertise is dairy herd health, specifically young stock health and infectious diseases. Her research is focused mainly on dairy cow longevity and cattle mortality but she is also involved in other projects related to veterinary epidemiology (Mycoplasma bovis infections in dairy cattle, African Swine Fever in Estonia as well as implementation of voluntary dairy herd health programmes).

Violeta Munoz

WG member
+41446358495
violeta.munozgomez@uzh.ch
University of Zürich, Switzerland
https://www.uzh.ch/de.html

She has been involved in various research and consultancy activities in areas of animal health and food safety. Main areas include surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, risk assessment and risk management strategies in animal health.

Hannele Nauholz

MC substitute
+358505596202
hannele.nauholz@ett.fi
Animal Health ETT, Seinäjoki, Finland
www.ett.fi

Veterinary advisor in an industry based animal health organization. Prevention of animal diseases, biosecurity and import instructions for animal production.

Ileana Margareta Nichita

MC substitute
00-40-256277039
nichita_ileana@yahoo.com
Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania”, Timisoara, Romania
https://www.usab-tm.ro/en

Ileana Margareta is working in a veterinary faculty, teaching and working in research projects. She has expertise in Veterinary Medicine Micology, Microbiology, Veterinary Hygiene, Heard Heath management and Biology of laboratory animals.

Mihaela Niculae

MC substitute
+40 (0) 264 59 63 84 / 173
mihaela.niculae@usamvcluj.ro
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
https://www.usamvcluj.ro/en/

Mihaela has scientific expertise in infectious diseases (diagnosis and control measures in bovine, swine, poultry, small animals, rabbits), the antimicrobial potential of natural products (herbal extracts, bee products) and antimicrobial resistance.

Mirjam Nielen

MC member
+31302531248
m.nielen@uu.nl
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht, Netherlands
www.uu.nl

Her research interest is evidence-based veterinary medicine. Her focus is clinical epidemiology, with the aim to find evidence for veterinary interventions from observational or intervention field studies.

Liza Nielsen

MC member
+4535333015
liza@sund.ku.dk
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
ivh.ku.dk/English

Liza is Professor in Veterinary Preventive Medicine with expertise in epidemiology, risk assessment, surveillance and control of infectious animal diseases and zoonoses. She works in a One Health setting. She is also Director of Copenhagen Cattle (www.cphcattle.ku.dk).

Jelena Nikitović

MC member
+38751348080
jelena.nikitovic@igr.unibl.org
University of Banja Luka, Institute for Genetic Resources, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
www.unibl.org

Her field of interest is testing autochthonous breeds and teaching meals for their preservation. Jelena is a deputy of the coordinator of the Animal Genetic Resources Group and a Senior Assistant at the Master Study of Conservation and the Sustainable Use of Genetic Resources.

Joao Niza Ribeiro

MC member
+351220428000
nizaribeiro@gmail.com
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar – Porto University, Porto, Portugal
www.sigarra.up.pt

His field of expertise is animal health: control, eradication, certification. Cattle epidemiology and health. Joao is currently interested in One health issues.

Matjaž Ocepek

MC substitute
+38614779252
matjaz.ocepek@vf.uni-lj.si
University of Ljubljana, Veterinary faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.vf.uni-lj.si

Matjaž is a Research Counselor and the Head of the National Veterinary Institute at the Veterinary Faculty. He is engaged in development and implementation of the methods for diagnostics of zoonoses.

Ranya Özcelik

WG member
+41316315741
ranya.oezcelik@vetsuisse.unibe.ch
Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland
www.vphi.ch

Ranya is a veterinarian by training and recieved her doctoral degree by working on diary cow physiology at the University of Bern. She is currently enrolled as a PhD student working on community based surveillance in Switzerland and Chad.

László Ózsvári

MC member
+3614784185
ozsvari.laszlo@univet.hu
University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
www.univet.hu

Experienced Associate Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in State Veterinary Medicine, Animal Health Economics, Veterinary Business Managament and Lecturing. Strong veterinary professional graduated from University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Webster University and Szent István University.

Theofilos Papadopoulos

MC member
+306974046768
theofilospapadopoulos@hotmail.com
Prefecture of Florina, Florina, Greece
www.gtp.gr

Theofilos is a veterinarian with a special interest in molecular microbiology of foodborne pathogens and the investigation of foodborne outbreaks.

Dimitris Papadopoulos

MC substitute
+302311821025
dpapvet@hotmail.com
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Veterinary Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
www.auth.gr

Bacteriology, mycology, infectious disease diagnosis, Antimicrobial Resistance, molecular typing.

Corina Pascu

MC member
+40256277198
corina_pascu_ro@yahoo.co.uk
Banats University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine “”King Michael I of Romania”” from Timisoara, Timis, Romania
www.usab-tm.ro

Infectious diseases, bacteriology, epidemiology, zoonoses, laboratory diagnosis.

Sinikka Pelkonen

MC member
+358400287061
sinikka.pelkonen@ruokavirasto.fi
Finnish Food Authority, Veterinary Bacteriology and Pathology Unit, Kuopio, Finland
www.ruokavirasto.fi

Bacteriology, infectious disease diagnostics and epidemiology.

Metin Petek

WG member
+902242941352
petek@uludag.edu.tr
Bursa Uludag University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Sciences, Bursa, Turkey
https://uludag.edu.tr/

Technical and teaching experiences on behaviour and welfare of farm animals, care and management of farm animals and poultry including slaughter and meat quality, Sustainable Animal Production and Economics, Biosecurity and Health Programmes in Animal Production.

Miroslaw Polak

MC member
+48818893316
ppolak@piwet.pulawy.pl
National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland
www.piwet.pulawy.pl

Viral diseases of cattle with special emphasis on molecular diagnosis and control programs. Prion diseases of ruminants with molecular typing and strain characterisation based on antibody reactivity.

Nicola Pozzato

MC member
+39045500285
npozzato@izsvenezie.it
IZSVe – Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Verona, Italy
http://www.izsvenezie.it/

Nicola Pozzato is in charge of the Verona diagnostic laboratory of IZSVe that include the pathology service, molecular biology, serology, and clinical bacteriology activities in animal health and welfare. His research interests regard paratuberculosis, with reference to disease control and diagnostics, other non-tubercular mycobacterioses, and diagnostics of viral respiratory infections of cattle. He’s also interested in forensic veterinary medicine.

Nikola Puvača

MC member
+381652191284
nikola.puvaca@gmail.com
University Business Academy, Faculty of Economics and Engineering Management, Novi Sad, Serbia
www.fimek.edu.rs

Animal Science, Animal Productin, Animal Nutrition, Bistatistical Methods, Large expirience in in vivo and in vitro animal trials.

Miodrag Radinovic

MC member
+38122500070
radinovic@polj.uns.ac.rs
Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad, Serbia
www.uns.ac.rs

Associate professor for subject Diseases of ruminants and Clinical diagnostic in ruminants and manager of mobile clinic for large animals.

Stefaan Ribbens

WG member
+3278050523
stefaan.ribbens@dgz.be
Animal Health Care Flanders, Belgium
www.dgz.be

Veterinary epidemiologist in livestock diseases & responsible for IBR & BVD programme in Northern-Belgium.

Ulla Rikula

MC substitute
+368505632052
ulla.rikula@ruokavirasto.fi
Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira, Helsinki, Finland
www.evira.fi

Carola Sauter-Louis

MC substitute
+493835171893
carola.sauter-louis@fli.de
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany
www.fli.de

Carola has been involved in the epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases for many years. Cattle diseases such as BVD and BHV1, but also production diseases of cattle were the focus of my Research, before expanding to other livestock disesase, such as AI or ASF.

Hermann Schobesberger

MC substitute
+43125077
hermann.schobesberger@vetmeduni.ac.at
Veterinärmedizinische Universtität Wien, Wien, Austria
www.vetmeduni.ac.at

Jana Schultz

WG member
+49 38351 7 4993
Jana.Schulz@fli.de
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald – Insel Riems, Germany
https://www.fli.de/en/startpage/

Jana Schulz focuses on mathematical models and investigates the spread, surveillance and control of animal diseases. She concentrates particularly on analysing the impact of different transmission routes on the course of disease and on assessing the effectiveness of current and potential surveillance and control measures.

Blagica Sekovska

MC member
+38970708730
bsekovska@fvm.ukim.edu.mk
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Skopje, North Macedonia
www.ukim.edu.mk

Rural economy, Economics of livestock breeding, Dairy production.

Sabina Šerić-Haračić

MC member
+38733663515
sabina.seric-haracic@vfs.unsa.ba
University of Sarajevo, Veterinaty faculty, Animal health economics department, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
www.upis.unsa.ba

Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in veterinary epidemiology, animal health economics and data analysis. Research in listed fields.

Dragan Soleša

MC substitute
+38162340959
dragan.solesa@fimek.edu.rs
University Business Academy, Faculty of Economics and Engineering Management, Novi Sad, Serbia
www.fimek.edu.rs

Quanititaive methodes and Informational systems.

Marina Spinu

WG member
Romania

Jože Starič

MC member
+38641712676
joze.staric@vf.uni-lj.si
University of Ljubljana, Veterinary faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.vf.uni-lj.si

Assoc. prof. teaching diseases and health care of ruminants.

Marco Tamba

WG member
Italy

Lena-Marie Tamminen

MC member
+4618671428
lena.mari.tamminen@slu.se
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
www.slu.se

Veterinarian with special interest in epidemiology. Current research project focused on verotoxin-producing E. coli in dairy cattle and I am actively involved in developing the national control program for this pathogen.

Marie Opsal Tangen

MC member
+4746548040
maota@mattilsynet.no
Norwegian food safety authority, Brumunddal, Norway
www.mattilsynet.no

Veterinarian. Legislative work and international negotiations on animal health, civil servant/governmental administration.

Hans-Hermann Thulke

MC member
+493412351712
hans.thulke@ufz.de
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
www.ufz.de

Epidemiologist applying quantitative approaches to animal health & welfare problems at the science-policy interface. His research focus is the use of modelling techniques in surveillance, intervention and control planning.

Ivan Toplak

WG member
+38614779180
ivan.toplak@vf.uni-lj.si
University of Ljubljana, Veterinary faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.vf.uni-lj.si

His expertise is development of diagnostic tools, genetic analysis of animal viruses and teaching Veterinary epizootiology. Diagnostics of viral diseases, molecular epidemiology and control programs are main part of my activities.

Erja Tuunainen

MC member
+358407090021
erja.tuunainen@ett.fi
Animal Health ETT, Lievestuore, Finland
www.ett.fi

Veterinary advisor, NASEVA-Centralized Health Care Register for Finnish cattle herds.

Annika van Roon

MC substitute
+31302531183
a.m.vanroon@uu.nl
Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
www.uu.nl

Annika is a PhD student with a Veterinary Epidemiology background working on the STOC free project (www.stocfree.eu) where they focus on the comparison of the confidence in freedom of disease based on different control programmes in the EU.

Anouk Veldhuis

MC substitute
+31570660408
a.veldhuis@gdanimalhealth.com
Royal GD, Deventer, the Netherlands
www.gdanimalhealth.com

Veterinary epidemiologist with a focus on cattle health surveillance.

Sharon Verner

WG member
+447717732050
sharon.verner@animalhealthni.com
Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland, Dungannon, United Kingdom
www.animalhealthni.com

Veterinarian: BVD Programme Manager with Animal Health & Welfare Northern Ireland (NI). Experience in the implementation of disease control programmes, regulated and non-regulated, in NI.