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Scientific Committee

Our Scientific Committee (SC) evaluates all applications for Short Term Scientific Missions and Workshops. The SC consists of employees at our member institutes and have long-standing expertise in relevant fields of science. Below you can meet our scientific committee.

Scientific Committee Members

Aivars Bērziņš


Institute: BIOR
Area of expertise:
Food and waterborne pathogens; molecular epidemiology; AMR; One Health surveillance and policy

Ana Cristina Ferreira


Institute: INIAV
Area of expertise:
Animal health; diagnostic and molecular bacteriology; brucellosis

Angela Pista


Institute: INSA
Area of expertise:
Foodborne pathogen detection/characterization; Salmonella; E coli; molecular epidemiology and genomics; public health

Bavo Verhagen


Institute: Sciensano
Area of expertise:
Foodborne outbreak detection; detection and characterization of foodborne pathogens; foodborne viruses; norovirus; waste water research

Beate Conrady


Institute: University of Copenhagen
Area of expertise:
Animal health economics and modelling of intervention measures

Eric Cardinale


Institute: ANSES
Area of expertise:
One Health surveillance and policy; zoonoses; food safety and foodborne zoonoses; outbreak investigation; infectious and vector borne diseases

Filip Boyen


Institute: UGent
Area of expertise:
Antimicrobial resistance in various bacteria of veterinary or zoonotic importance; use of MALDI-TOF in diagnostics and innovative applications of this technique

Georg Duscher


Institute: AGES
Area of expertise:
Zoonoses; parasitology; vector borne diseases

Georgios Miliotis


Institute: University of Galway
Area of expertise:
Antimicrobial resistance; bioinformatics; microbiome; astrobiology

Gilles Salvat


Institute: Anses
Area of expertise:
Campylobacter; Salmonella; E. coli; S. aureus; in poultry and pigs

Jacek Karamon


Institute: PIWET
Area of expertise:
Parasitology; zoonotic parasitoses; veterinary parasitiology; foodborne parasites; Echinococcus; wildlife parasitology

Jovita Fernandez-Pinero


Institute: CSIC
Area of expertise:
Animal health; veterinary virology; viral zoonoses; BSL-3; diagnostics; genomic surveillance; molecular epidemiology

Julio Álvarez Sánchez


Institute: UCM, VISAVET
Area of expertise:
Zoonoses; AMR; molecular epidemiology; Salmonella; surveillance; tuberculosis

Karin Troell


Institute: NVI
Area of expertise:
Parasitology; Foodborne protozoa

Lapo Mughini Gras


Institute: RIVM
Area of expertise:
Epidemiology; modelling; food safety; zoonoses; foodborne pathogens; AMR

Levan Tsitshishvili


Institute: SRCA
Area of expertise:
Bovine Tuberculosis; zoonotic Tuberculosis, vector-borne diseases

Liam Burke


Institute: University of Galway
Area of expertise:
Antimicrobial resistance; E. coli; ESBL; healthcare-associated infection; plasmids

Mamuka Kotetishvili


Institute: OHI
Area of expertise:
Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases; food safety; environmental safety, AMR; microbial ecology and evolution; molecular strain typing.

Marianne Sandberg


Institute: DTU
Area of expertise:
Food safety; epidemiology; Campylobacter; Salmonella; STEC; meat inspection; interventions; outbreak investigation

Martin Richter


Institute: BfR
Area of expertise:
Bio-terrorism; high consequence pathogens; biosecurity; bacteriological food contamination; parasite borne food contamination

Menno van der Voort


Institute: WFSR
Area of expertise:
Detection and characterization of foodborne pathogens; AMR; molecular bacteriology and genomics

Michel Counotte


Institute: WBVR
Area of expertise:
(Veterinary) epidemiology and public health; risk and transmission modelling; one health; interdisciplinarity

Nina Dam Otten


Institute: University of Copenhagen
Area of expertise:
Animal health and welfare; epidemiology; Livestock production

Olwen Golden


Institute: CVRL
Area of expertise:
Parasitology; immunology; food safety; Salmonella, Campylobacter

Patricia Garvey


Institute: HPSC
Area of expertise:
Human disease epidemiology, survellance, data visualisation, and outbreak investigation; food, water, zoonotic and vectorborne disease; studies for risk factors for disease

Pavle Banović


Institute: Pasteur Novi Sad
Area of expertise:
Human vector-borne diseases; emerging and re-emerging diseases detection and research; immunization surveillance; animal models

Pikka Jokelainen


Institute: SSI
Area of expertise:
One Health; infectious disease preparedness; zoonoses; parasites

Robert Söderlund


Institute: SVA
Area of expertise:
Molecular bacteriology and bioinformatics

Roberto La Ragione


Institute: University of Surrey
Area of expertise:
Bacteriology; AMR; E. coli; Salmonella; host-microbe interaction

Rosangela Tozzoli


Institute: ISS
Area of expertise:
Foodborne zoonosis; methods for detection and characterization of foodborne pathogens; pathogenic E. coli; molecular surveillance

Shaun Cawthraw


Institute: APHA
Area of expertise:
Foodborne zoonosis; detection and characterization of foodborne bacteria; Salmonella; Campylobacter; bacterial immunology; in vivo studies; bacteriological field studies; AMR

Solveig Jore


Institute: FHI
Area of expertise:
Epidemiology; zoonoses; food safety; outbreak investigation; tick-borne diseases

Virginia Filipello


Institute: IZSLER
Area of expertise:
Food safety; foodborne pathogens, AMR, molecular biology, food authenticity