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Born May, 1958, Giessen, Federal Republic of Germany. German citizen, permanent resident of New Zealand, and resident in the United Kingdom. Married with one child. Languages German, English, some Spanish.

Education

Degree in veterinary medicine, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, 1984. Doctor medicinae veterinariae (magna cum laude), Justus Liebig University, 1986. Postgraduate diploma in tropical veterinary medicine, Free University of Berlin, 1987. Membership examination for the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in epidemiology, 1992. PhD, Massey University in veterinary epidemiology, 1994. Diplomate of European College of Veterinary Public Health, 2003.

Positions

1985-86 Field veterinarian with Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario and German Agency for Technical Cooperation, located in the north of Colombia in a dual purpose dairy-beef production system.

1987 Field work with development projects in Kenya, Somalia, Malaysia and Thailand.

1988-1991 Postdoctoral Fellow funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Massey University, New Zealand.

1992-1995 Lecturer in Production Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

1992-1994 Health adviser to Pig Improvement Company NZ Ltd.

1996-1999 Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Epidemiology, EpiCentre, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, College of Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

From January 2001 to 2002, Guest Professorship at Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Since July 1999, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, United Kingdom.

Since June 2000, Honorary Professorship at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Membership of Advisory Committees and Expert Panels

Editorial Board of international scientific journal Preventive Veterinary Medicine (1995-2003); Editorial Board of the international scientific journal The Veterinary Journal (since 2002); Editorial Board of the international scientific journal BMC Veterinary Research (since 2005); Surveillance Strategy Project Board of Department of Food and Rural Affairs, UK (2000 – 2003); Scientific review of badger culling trial for Department of Food and Rural Affairs, UK (2003-4);  Wellcome Trust’s Advisory Committee for the funding initiative ‘Animal Health in the Developing World’ (2004-5); International Advisory Committee for Review of Food Safety and Biosecurity Programmes of Singapore's Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (since 2002); Scientific Panel for Animal Health and Welfare of European Food Safety Authority (since 2003); VetSuisse Advisory Committee for merger of veterinary faculties at Universities of Zurich and Berne, Switzerland (since 2005); International Advisory Standing Committee of Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre (since 2005); Wellcome Trust’s funding committee ‘Tropical and Clinical Immunology and Infectious Disease’ (since 2005)

Research Experience and Interests

Research projects on bovine brucellosis in Colombia; echinococcosis in camels and lungworm in small ruminants, Somalia; development of smallholder animal health services, Thailand; lameness in dairy cattle, New Zealand; epidemiology and control of bovine tuberculosis, New Zealand; epidemiology and control of enzootic bovine leucosis, New Zealand; epidemiology of Neospora caninum infection in dairy cattle, New Zealand; epidemiology of rabbit haemorrhagic disease in wild rabbit populations, New Zealand; development of decision support systems for animal disease control, Zimbabwe; constraints to productivity of smallholder dairy cattle production in Northern Vietnam; spatial risk mapping of infectious diseases in livestock

Special emphasis on evidence-based veterinary medicine, analytical epidemiology, advanced multivariate techniques, spatial and temporal analysis of epidemiological data, development of animal health information systems, computer modelling of animal disease, and field ecological research methods.

Teaching Experience

Epidemiology teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including teaching of specialist courses at advanced level.

Currently supervising and co-supervising 7 PhD and 10 MSc students.

Designed and taught international training courses in veterinary epidemiology and in spatial analysis in Austria, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Germany, New Zealand, Malawi, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Vietnam and United Kingdom.

National and International Consultancies

Defra (UK), FAO, GTZ (Germany), IAEA, ILRI, VLA (UK) and WHO.

Publications

122 published peer-reviewed journal papers. 8 refereed book chapters. 43 official reports. Editor of 2 conference proceedings. 122 papers, 13 abstracts and 12 posters published in conference proceedings. 11 unpublished conference papers. 55 invited guest lectures and plenary papers. 22 radio interviews, newspaper articles and television reports.

Research Funding

Current as principal investigator: approximately £2.2Mill for research programme on African swine fever virus and £800k for research on a vaccine and epidemiology of PPR, both funded by the Wellcome Trust; £600k for animal welfare research from BBSRC; £150k from Defra for investigating the epidemiology of MRSA in dogs and cats; plus another £100k for various smaller research projects.

Past funding: approximately £1,500,000 research funding for various projects, including use of biomarkers to predict horse fractures, antibiotic usage in pig production, development of a global animal and production atlas, development of predictive spatial risk models for rift-valley fever in Africa, control of tick-borne diseases in redline zone of Kruger National Park, role of wildlife in the epidemiology of paratuberculosis, spatial patterns of avian influenza in China, tuberculosis in wild possums in New Zealand.

Other Links

EpiVetNet - the principal Veterinary Epidemiology Web Site including details on software, other centres for training and contact details of veterinary epidemiologists worldwide.