Dr Klaus-Peter Behr is a specialist veterinarian for poultry and Diplomate (EBVS) of the European College of Poultry Veterinary Science. After working as a scientific assistant at the Clinic for Poultry at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover until 1992, he built up the veterinary service of an integrated company in the poultry industry and in 2005 founded a diagnostic laboratory with affiliated production of flock-specific vaccines for livestock, which he managed until mid-2022. Since 2008, Dr Behr has also been actively involved in animal disease control, until 2013 as founding managing director of GESEVO GmbH - Gesellschaft für Seuchenvorsorge. Dr Behr is currently active as managing partner of ABICS GmbH and AN Vorsorge GmbH, both companies dealing with animal disease control issues.

Dr. Behr supports the professorship in the module

• Animal Husbandry and Health Management
• Animal Health and Animal Welfare.

Professor Bachmann has been Chair of Animal Hygiene at Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences since 2021 and is a specialist veterinarian for animal nutrition and dietetics. She also works for the FBN in Dummerstorf for the management of the barn construction project "Innovations for healthy and "happy" cows (IGG)". Her research focuses on calf health management, especially the therapy of neonatal diarrhoea as well as the survey of risk factors for the occurrence of ESBL-E. coli in calves, and the health and fertility of dairy cows. In teaching at Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, she covers the areas of anatomy and physiology of domestic animals, animal health management and animal welfare.

Lisa Bachmann supports the professorship in the module "Animal Husbandry and Health Management".

Professor Mettenleiter has been President of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), the Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, with its headquarters on the island of Riems near Greifswald, since 1996. The FLI's work focuses on the health and welfare of farm animals and the protection of humans from zoonoses, i.e. infections transmissible between animals and humans.

Professor Mettenleiter has been an honorary professor at the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences since October 2019 and supports the professorship in the modules

• Animal Health and Animal Welfare
• Animal Husbandry and Health Management and
• Livestock Diseases and Disease Control.

Dr. Kammerer heads the Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Immunoreceptor Function at the Institute of Immunology at the Friedrich Loffler Institute (FLI) on the island of Riems. The staff of the laboratory use the example of immune receptor gene families to investigate influences that led to the species-specific evolution of the immune system of farm animals. The aim of these studies is to identify differences and similarities in the immune systems of different animal species and to develop strategies that lead to optimised treatment and prophylaxis of pathogen-related diseases in individual animal species.

Dr. Kammerer supports the professorship in the module "Animal Husbandry and Health Management".

PD Dr. Wernike heads the National Reference Laboratories for Bovine Viral Diarrhoea/Mucosal Disease and Schmallenberg Virus at the Friedrich Loffler Institute (FLI) on Riems Island. Her work focuses on the diagnosis, pathogenesis and prevention of viral diseases in ruminants.

PD Dr. Wernike supports the professorship in the modules:

•  Animal Husbandry and Health Management
•  Animal Health and Animal Welfare
•  Animal Diseases and Disease Control.

Dr. Julia Sehl-Ewert has been employed at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut as a research associate since 2017 and is head of the Laboratory of Pathology II. As a pathologist, she is involved in numerous projects on various infectious diseases. However, her main areas of work include African swine fever and influenza. She is also researching a new model for human herpesvirus encephalitis.

Dr. Sehl-Ewert supports the professorship in the module

• Animal Husbandry and Health Management
• Animal Health and Animal Welfare.

Dr. Katja Schulz has been working as a research associate at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) in the Institute of Epidemiology since 2013. Her work focuses on animal health surveillance and participatory epidemiology. Dr Schulz is currently preparing her habilitation at the University of Rostock. The habilitation thesis on the surveillance and control of animal diseases using the example of African swine fever in wild boar was successfully completed in November 2022.

Dr. Schulz supports the professorship in the module

• Animal Husbandry and Health Management
• Animal Health and Animal Welfare.