Erik Ågren is a veterinary pathologist working at the National Veterinary Institute in Sweden, heading the National wildlife disease surveillance program. He is a Diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine (Wildlife Population Health) and a former chair of the Nordic section of the WDA 2003 – 2013 and vice-chair of EWDA 2013 – 2018.  His work focuses on diseases in Nordic wildlife and diseases in semi-domesticated reindeer, currently working on surveillance of CWD, African Swine Fever, Echinoccus multilocularis, chytrid disease, and projects on nasal tumors in moose.

Miriam Maas works as researcher for the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. Her work concentrates on wildlife-borne zoonoses, with a focus on zoonoses from wild rodents and from invasive mammal species. She has a special interest in urban ecology and the challenges of greening of cities.
She graduated from Veterinary Medicine at the University of Utrecht in 2010. With an interest in wildlife and infectious diseases, she continued with a PhD on Tuberculosis in African lions. After this PhD, she started as a researcher at the Centre of Infectious Disease control of the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. She has been involved in the EWDA since 2005.

Philippe Berny is a French veterinarian, involved with WDA/EWDA since 2005. His main interest is in ecotoxicology, especially of terrestrial vertebrates, topic on which he has published some papers (focusing mostly on pesticides, rodenticides and lead poisoning). He teaches veterinary toxicology in the vet college of Lyon. He is member of various expert committees in France (Anses) and Europe (EFSA) that work on risk assessment of pesticides and drugs and develop wildlife environmental risk assessment in the regulatory framework, providing better tools to evaluate risks associated with pesticides, drugs or chemicals. As EWDA treasurer, he has helped to create and manage different accounts for the various activities of the association.

Alberto Casado Gómez is a veterinary surgeon currently living in the United Kingdom. He finished an MSc in Wild Animal Health at the Zoological Society of London and has worked in several zoological collections and rehabilitation centres in different countries. Currently, he works part time in clinical practice while doing an MSc in Conservation Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Alongside the EWDA, Alberto is also an active member of other organisations such as the European Association of Avian Veterinarians (EAAV) and the European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians (EAZWV).

Bea obtained her DVM in 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Her growing passion for wildlife conservation and research led her to complete an MSc in Wildlife Management and Conservation at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic. She has worked on reintroduction programs and non-invasive health monitoring of antelopes, and studied the toxicology, ecology, and pathology of birds of prey. Currently, she is a Conservation Officer for a project focused on recovering bird species in non-secure conservation status at the Spanish Game and Wildlife Research Institute (IREC) in Ciudad Real, Spain. She has been an active member of the Sustainability Committee of the EWDA since 2019.

Helle Hydeskov is a wildlife veterinarian and doctoral candidate at Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, where she is studying health effects of lead (Pb) in Scandinavian brown bears. Helle graduated veterinary school from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2010 and has since worked in 20 different countries with multiple stakeholders. Prior to joining Nottingham Trent University in 2019, Helle completed a 1-year small animal rotating internship at a private veterinary emergency and referral hospital in Canada and 3-year European College of Zoological Medicine residency in Wildlife Population Health at the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom. Helle became an EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Wildlife Population Health in 2019. Helle has been an EWDA member since 2016 and has served on the EWDA Small Grants Committee since 2019. Since 2022, she has served on the EWDA Board as the Student Activities Coordinator.

Xavier Fernandez Aguilar is a veterinarian at the CReSA-IRTA Animal Health Research Center in Spain. Hisresearch focuses on the ecology of infectious diseases in wildlife, their interactions with livestock and public health, and their implications for promoting health and wildlife conservation. He graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and a MSc in Wildlife Health and Management from the Universidad de Murcia. In 2017, he completed his PhD at UAB on the eco-epidemiology of infectious diseases in mountain ungulates at the wildlife-livestock interface. He pursued postdoctoral research at the Royal Veterinary College in London, the University of Calgary, and UAB. He has been a member of the EWDA since 2015.

Gábor Á. Czirják is a research scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) Berlin, Germany. After graduating in 2004 from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania, he obtained his PhD in 2011 in the field of Veterinary Medicine & Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution from the same university and from Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France. He joined the IZW as head of the wildlife immunology lab within the Department of Wildlife Diseases in 2010. His research interest covers several areas from the fields of eco-immunology, evolution of host-parasite interactions, conservation physiology and ecology of wildlife diseases. Over the years, he has been working with several taxonomic groups (reptiles, birds, mammals), but recently he focuses mainly on bats and carnivores. Member of the EWDA/WDA since 2004…between 2004-2008 was a student representative of Romania, and since 2016 responsible for the communication with Eastern European countries. He is also a diplomate of the European Collegue of Zoological Medicine (Wildlife Population Health)

Đuro Huber graduated from veterinary medicine at the University of Zagreb in 1975, specialising in ecology (master’s degree) and wildlife parasitology (PhD in 1979). He became a member of the WDA in 1979/80 while working with a Fulbright grant at the Wild Animal Disease Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. He worked for 45 years at the Biology Department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb, primarily teaching Zoology and Ecology, where he is now professor emeritus. He conducts studies of large carnivores (bear, wolf and lynx), whith research methods that include handling of free living (for radio-telemetry tracking), captive and dead animals for studies on ecology, morphology, physiology, health status, nutritional and genetic aspects; all applied to conservation and management. So far, Đuro has published 185 scientific papers.

Gudrun Wibbelt is a wildlife pathologist at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin, Germany. After graduating at Hanover University, she became a resident for veterinary pathology at Liverpool University, UK. In 2002 she started working at the IZW being involved with captive and free-ranging wildlife. Her research interests include wildlife infectious diseases concerning particularly small mammals like bats. She joined the EWDA as a member more than ten years ago and she is a Diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine (Wildlife Population Health).