Thomas Van Boeckel Scientific Collaborator
- thomas.van.boeckel@gmail.com
Biographical sketch
Thomas Van Boeckel is an associate professor at the One Health Institute of the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He has previously held positions at ETH Zürich (Prof. Sebastian Bonhoeffer), as Fulbright Scholar at Princeton (Prof. Bryan Grenfell and Prof. Simon Levin), at the University of Oxford (Prof. Simon Hay), and originally obtained his PhD from SPeLL (2013, Prof. Marius Gilbert).He also holds a visiting appointment at the One Health Trust, a global head think tank with headquarters in Bangalore and Washington DC, USA.
Research interests
Thom develops maps of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and explores economic incentives to reduce antimicrobial use (AMU) in animals. The work of his group aims to inform policy-makers, on a global level, to address the rise of drug-resistant pathogens in animals. His research areas include AMR epidemiology, disease mapping, and livestock production systems. Thom, and his group have initiated the development of a platform to centralize epidemiological data collection on AMR (resistancebank.org). The list of publications below only includes his publication performed in collaboration with some SpELL members - for his full list of publications, see the web page of his research group.