ESCCAP Austria

ESCCAP Austria MEMBER

Anja Joachim graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover, Germany, in 1992. After postgraduate studies in Sydney, Australia, and Copenhagen, Denmark, she became Lecturer for Parasitology at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 2001.

In 2003 she was appointed as Professor of Parasitology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Austria). Her main research focuses on host-parasite interactions in porcine isosporosis and nematode infections. Amongst others, she is on the Board of the Austrian Society of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology and the European Veterinary Parasitology College and a member of the German Society of Parasitology, the German Veterinary Society and the World Association for the advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP), and she is on the Advisory Board of the Karl-Enigk-Foundation (Germany).