Professor George Oikonomou DVM PhD FHEA FRCVS
Professor of Cattle Health and Welfare Livestock & One Health
- +44 (0)151 795 8300
- Work email Georgios.Oikonomou@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal Websitehttps://twitter.com/GOikonomou
- ORCID0000-0002-4451-4199
About
Personal Statement
I studied Veterinary Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During my PhD studies, I investigated the genetics of energy balance and fertility in Holstein cows. I spent a few years managing a 600 cow dairy herd in Greece before moving to the USA where I worked as a research associate at Cornell University and got involved in various research projects on dairy cattle lameness, mastitis, and reproductive diseases. I was a co-Project Director on a USDA-funded project studying the dynamics of the mammary microbiome and I am currently studying dairy cattle lameness using genomic and microbiomic approaches and funded by BBSRC, Innovate Uk, the Wellcome Trust, the Animal Welfare Foundation, and the Academy of Medical Sciences.
The overarching objective of my research is the improvement of the welfare of dairy cattle and of the sustainability of dairy farms.