Vetmeduni: Desvars Amelie

Associate Professor in Infection Epidemiology

Assoz.Prof. Amelie Desvars, PhD.
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DVM, PhD in Veterinary Epidemiology

Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Josefstädter Str. 39
1080 Vienna
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Veterinärmedizinischen Universität Wien
Kremesberg 13
2563 Pottenstein
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Fields of activity

One Health
Infectious diseases epidemiology
Zoonotic and emerging diseases
Animal health data
FAIR data

Publications

Publications in VetDoc

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Career

2023-today	Associate Professor for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Unit of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
2019-today	Resident Scientist and Faculty Member Complexity Science Hub Vienna
2019-2023	Assistant Professor for Infectious Disease Epidemiology (tenure track), Unit of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
2015-2019	University Assistant / Postdoctoral Researcher. Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
2013-2015	Postdoctoral Researcher. Dept. of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics / Dpt. of Microbiology, Umeå University, Sweden
2009-2012	Ph.D in Epidemiology, University of Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France. Centre for Research and Monitoring of Emerging Diseases in the Indian Ocean, CRVOI
2008	Field Veterinary Epidemiologist. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), La Réunion (France), Madagascar
2007	Field Veterinary Epidemiologist. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Animal Epidemiology Unit (UMR EPIA), Clermont-Ferrand, France. Project manager for the region Indian Ocean
2005-2006	Assistant Director, Epidemiological Surveillance Network for Livestock (RESIR), Groupement de Défense Sanitaire (GDS) 974 La Réunion, France

Ongoing Projects

“One Health modelling approach to SARS-CoV-2” - PhD One Health Doctoral Programme, in collaboration with Univ.-Prof. Peter M. Roth, Institute for Computational Medicine, Vetmeduni. Vetmeduni internal funding, 01.09.2023 – 28.02.2027

“LeptOspirose bei Rindern in Niederösterreich LORN. Ein gezielter Ansatz zur Verbesserung der Veterinärdiagnostik und zur Verhinderung einer beruflichen Exposition gegenüber Zoonosen (LORN)“. Funding body: Land Niederösterreich, 01.06.2021 – 31.05.2024.

“Can bovine genital leptospirosis be responsible for fertility disorders in cattle in Austria?”, in collaboration with Dr. Harald Pothmann, Unit of Herd Health Management in Ruminants, Vetmeduni). Vetmeduni internal funding.

“Systemisches Risikomanagement und Resilienzplanung für die österreichische Lebensmittel-Versorgungssicherheit (SYRI)“. Funding body: FFG KIRAS, 01.03.2022 – 30.06.2024.

“Cost Action CA20103 BETTER - Biosecurity Enhanced Through Training Evaluation and Raising Awareness”. Funding body: COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), 21.10.2021 – 20.10.2025. Website.

“SARS-ANI: a global open access dataset of reported SARS-CoV-2 events in animals”, in collaboration with Liuhuaying Yang (Complexity Science Hub). Dashboard.

Completed Projects

An original structured open-source dataset of non-pharmaceutical interventions in response to COVID-19
Role: Principal investigator
Duration: 1 November 2020 – 1 March 2021
Funding body: European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

Cost Action 18208 HARMONY - Novel tools for test evaluation and disease prevalence estimation.
Role: Management Committee Member
Duration: 25 October 2019 – 24 October 2023
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Memberships in scientific societies

2019 - today: Faculty Member Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria.

2020: AnsprechpartnerInnen für Covid-19. Österreichische Universitätenkonferenz (Uniko)

Member of scientists4future

Member of the Austrian Society of Epidemiology

Member of the Österreichische Buiatrische Gesellschaft (ÖBG)

Member of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine (SVEPM)

Member of the Network Science Society

Member of the Austrian Society of Epidemiology (ÖGEpi)