Affiliation: International Atomic Energy Agency, Joint FAO/IAEA, Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna

Dr. Giovanni Cattoli graduated in Veterinary Medicine and holds a PhD from the University of Bologna, Italy. He pursued his post-doctoral research in The Netherlands at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine – Utrecht University and School of Medicine – Free University of Amsterdam. During the period 2000-2015, he was working in the field of virology and influenza infections at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe) where he held the position of Director of the Research & Innovation Department. Since 2016 he has been the head of Animal Production and Health Laboratory at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. His main fields of activity concern the development and application of rapid and innovative diagnostic methods for veterinary infectious diseases and zoonoses, the development of novel vaccines and vaccination strategies for avian influenza and other animal pathogens, molecular epidemiology of emerging and zoonotic pathogens in different animal species.