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Wim van der Poel is a special professor of Emerging and Zoonotic Viruses at Wageningen University and Research (WUR). He is a specialist at the European College of Veterinary Microbiology (ECVM) and Coordinator of the EPIZONE European Research Group, the largest network on epizootic animal diseases research. 

Wim van der Poel is a researcher and an expert on veterinary virology and detection and characterization of new and emerging viruses, for more than 30 years. 

Over the past few years, Wim van der Poel worked at Wageningen Bioveterinary Research and collaborated with a lot of other research groups in several One Health networks, including the One Health EJP, the Netherlands Center for One Health (NCOH), and the Global One Health Research Partnership (GOHRP).

He relies on a vast network of professional experts in the specific areas of emerging and zoonotic viruses; foodborne viruses and One Health.

Wim van der Poel is Doctor in veterinary medicine and has a Ph.D. degree from Utrecht University, The Netherlands.