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Nicola Decaro is Professor of Infectious Diseases of Animals, University of Bari, Italy. PhD degree, Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2009). President of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology (ECVM). Head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine (2021-2015) and member of the Board of Governors of University of Bari (2026-current).

Director of the Specialization School of Infectious Diseases of Animals, University of Bari (2008-2014). Coordinator of the PhD course “Animal Health and Zoonoses”, University of Bari (2017-2021). President of the Italian Society of Veterinary Infectivologists (ANIV) (2018-2021). Member of the Board of the Italian Society of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (Si.Di.L.V.) (2014-2019). Editor/Associate editor of Journal of Virological Methods, Acta Tropica, Virus Genes. Author/coauthor of more than 400 scientific manuscripts (332 on peer-reviewed international journals); h-index = 64 (Scopus). Viral infections of carnivores and ruminants are the main topics of his research, focusing on the characterization of emerging viruses and development of diagnostic assays and vaccine.