Dr Georgios Oikonomou

Prof Georgios Oikonomou is a cattle health and production specialist with significant research, teaching, and outreach experience. He holds a personal Chair (Professor of Cattle Health and Welfare) at the Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences (University of Liverpool) and devotes a significant proportion of his time to veterinary research while he remains clinically active and delivers postgraduate and undergraduate teaching. He graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and during his PhD studies, he investigated the genetics of energy balance and fertility in Holstein cows. He spent a few years managing a 600 cow dairy herd in Greece before moving to the USA where he worked as a research associate at Cornell University and got involved in various research projects on dairy cattle lameness, mastitis, and reproductive diseases. He is currently studying dairy cattle lameness using genomic and microbiomic approaches and funded by BBSRC, Innovate UK, the Wellcome Trust, and the Academy of Medical Sciences. The overarching objective of his research is the improvement of the welfare of dairy cattle and of the sustainability of dairy farms.