Specialties
Georgios Oikonomou
PhD MRCVS
University of Liverpool, Institute of Infection and Global Health, UK
Bio
Georgios studied Veterinary Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 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. Georgios was a co-Project Director on a USDA-funded project studying the dynamics of the mammary microbiome and is now studying dairy cattle lameness using genomic and microbiomic approaches. The overarching objective of his research is the improvement of the welfare of dairy cattle and of the sustainability of dairy farms.