Soren Alexandersen

Profile

Professor Soren Alexandersen is a veterinary pathologist, virologist and epidemiologist specialising in molecular pathogenesis, epidemiology, detection and control of virus infections since 1982.

He has worked at the NIH in Montana and at Iowa State University in the USA; Assistant and Associate Professor of Veterinary Pathology, Research Professor of Molecular Pathobiology, Professor and Chair of Veterinary Virology and Adjunct Professor of Pathology and Exotic Virology at the Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University and Director of the Danish Veterinary Institute for Virus Research as well as Head of Experimental Epidemiology at the Pirbright Institute in England.

In 2008, he became Director and, in 2010, Executive Director of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s National Centres for Animal Disease (NCAD) including the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease (NCFAD) in Winnipeg and the Lethbridge Laboratory in Alberta, Canada.

In October 2015, he joined Deakin University as a Professor and Director of the Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases (GCEID), a One Health collaborative Centre of Deakin University, Barwon Health/University Hospital Geelong and the CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory.

His extensive international experience gives APPRISE a valuable knowledge base and links with organisations working in the field of infectious diseases, especially those at the human-animal interface.

See Professor Alexandersen’s profile at Deakin University.

Discover more about the Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases (GCEID).