Una Europa One Health webinar 2026 - November 5, 2026

Prof. Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn, DVM, PhD is Head of the Antimicrobial Resistance Unit at the Complutense University in Madrid, and Adjunct Professor of Biotechnology at the University for Development Studies in Ghana. He gained his DVM in 1996 studying in Spain and Germany and his european PhD in 2001. After his Postdoc at the Pasteur Institute in Paris he received a Ramon y Cajal tenure-track contract from the Spanish Ministry of Science to return to Spain. He achieved in 2008 his position as Professor in Complutense University of Madrid. In 2011 he was awarded the National Microbiology Award, the bianual Jaime Ferran Award from the Spanish Society for Microbiology, and in 2018 the National Award for Antimicrobial Resistance. Currently he leads ARU working on molecular microbiology and the ecology of antimicrobial resistance in Madrid. His research interests focus on the role the ecology of antimicrobial resistance, including humans, animals, food and the environment, focusing his research on genomics from a One Health perspective. He is the former president of the Group for Molecular Microbiology of the Spanish Society for Microbiology, and is part of numerous Committees on Antimicrobial Resistance at National and International Institutions. His teaching activity is devoted to Microbiology in Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacy, Food Science and Technology, Medicine and Biology.

My name is Thilo Kroll. I am currently a Joint UCD IEHG Full Professor of Health Systems Management at the University College Dublin. Equipped with a PhD in Psychology focusing on the social inclusion and school re-entry of children and adolescents with cancer in Germany. Over the past 30 years, I have conducted interdisciplinary research with a focus on disability-, rehabilitation and health-related topics. Before embarking on my academic career, I worked as a patient advocate to promote the voice of young people with arthritis and disabilities. In the United States, I worked with young people with spinal cord injuries surviving gun violence. I am passionate about community and participatory research, and the inclusion of seldom heard or marginalised groups in co-designing and conducting research in the area of disability, homelessness and interpersonal violence. Before coming to Ireland in 2016, I held a Personal Chair as Professor of Disability and Public Health at University of Dundee and served as the Co-Director of the interdisciplinary Social Dimensions of Health Institute (SDHI) of Universities of Dundee and St Andrews in the UK. While much of my work has focused on health promotion for people with disabilities, access to health care and inclusive research methodologies, it has been very much linked to other sources of exclusion and marginalisation (eg poverty, gender, ethnicity). Moreover, in my current role I am keen to promote systems- and design-thinking in research, education and practice. Currently, I am leading the implementation of public and patient involvement (PPI) in health- and social care related work at UCD and beyond as part of the Irish HRB-funded National PPI Network. At present, I am also a member of the UNA Europa One Health team and am particularly interested in how we involve the public in health-related planning and decision-making.

Marcel started his career in astrophysics. After a decade of doing data science in industry, he joined the LUMC and the team that runs a transdisciplinary data infrastructure with a focus on population health. He lead the technical team of data managers, engineers and scientists in their work to support a few dozen researchers. His own research focuses on using routinely collected healthcare data, combined with census data and using it for the prediction of disease onset and progression in lifestyle related disease and mental health. He also works on synthetic data sets to support education and open science. His work spans the full spectrum of translational data science, from fundamental work in computer science to studies that support implementation of our findings in clinical practice.

I am a principal scientist at MSD Animal Health in Boxmeer, the Netherlands. My department Discovery & Technology (D&T) is part of the Global Research & Development (R&D) group of our Animal Health division. Research in my team is focused on: (1) novel technologies for isolation, characterization and culturing of newly discovered pathogens that infect animals and possibly humans (zoonoses), (2) novel approaches to efficacious vaccine development against existing and newly discovered pathogens and (3) development of new technologies to culture pathogens for vaccine production. At D&T, we work with a team of five project leaders in different disciplines: Cell Biology, Bacteriology, Molecular Virology, Immunology and Chemistry.

Lara is a statistical geneticist with a PhD in computational genomics from the University of Cambridge and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and independent research experience with the national Department of Conservation as a Humboldt Fellow in New Zealand. Since 2022, Lara has led her own research group, now as a professor at the University of Zurich and its Food Safety and One Health Institutes, and previously as Helmholtz Principal Investigator at the Helmholtz AI Institute with a faculty position at the Technical University of Munich. Lara was named the Young Scientist of the Year by the German Association of University Professors in 2023 and one of the Swiss Top 100 Women in AI, Data, and Robotics in 2026. She is engaged with the German governmental One Health Council, the Swiss Biorisk Alliance, the Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform nanopore expert group, and the PulseNet International network.

Katja Hornbæk Mikkelsen graduated as veterinarian in 2006 and worked in cattle practice in Denmark until 2013. Since then, she has been employed as a Veterinary Technical Manager at MSD Animal Health Nordic. Katja was brought up on a dairy farm and has a long-standing interest in calf health and management, leading welfare projects like Cattle Care 24/7, a project that combines health monitoring, prevention and communication around calf health on dairy farms.