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Giovanni Cattoli (DVM, PhD) graduated in Veterinary Medicine and holds a PhD from the University of Bologna (Italy). He spent his three-year Post-Doc position in The Netherlands working on helicobacter infections at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine – Utrecht University- first, then at the School of Medicine – Free University of Amsterdam.
Since 2000 he has been working in the field of virology, molecular epidemiology and influenza infections at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe) where he holds the position of Director of the Research & Innovation Department. He is OIE expert and senior scientist in the FAO Reference Laboratory for Animal Influenza and Newcastle disease and in the OIE Collaborating Centre and National Reference Centre for diseases at the animal-human interface.

His main fields of activity concern the development and application of rapid and innovative diagnostic methods for veterinary infectious diseases and zoonoses, the development of novel vaccination strategies for avian influenza, molecular epidemiology of emerging and zoonotic pathogens in different animal species.

On behalf of international organizations such as the OIE, FAO, IAEA and EU Commission he is requested as an expert to participate in international supporting and training missions. He is also directly involved in managing several experimental research programmes on the diagnosis and pathogenesis of influenza viruses in different animal species.