The GMPC is delighted to announce Prof. Dr. med. vet. habil. Heinrich Neubauer, the Head of the Institute for Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses (IBIZ) of Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut as the Editor-in-chief of the German Journal of Veterinary Research (Ger. J. Vet. Res.). Prof. Neubauer brings to the Ger. J. Vet. Res. an impressive resume of writing and convening. We are looking forward to his leadership in deepening the journal's intellectual foundation and broadening its institutional reach by leading our editorial team.

Since 2006, Prof. Neubauer is the Head of the Institute for Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses (IBIZ) of Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI). He is a recognized specialist in Microbiology and Veterinary Public Health and is delegate ECVPH. He is also an OIE reference expert for brucellosis and glanders and carried out several expert missions for UN, NIH (NIAID), DGHM, COST, etc. Prof. Neubauer gained his veterinary degree in Veterinary Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, between 1987-1992. In 1995, he finished his Thesis on diagnostics of orthopoxviruses. In 2001, he completed his Habilitation on epidemiology and molecular epidemiology of Yersinia spp. and became facultas docendi at the University of Leipzig in 2003.

In between 1994-2006, he was the head of the working group "Bacteriology and Toxinology" at the Institute of Microbiology German Federal Armed Forces, Munich. Between 2006-2011, he was the Local Administrative Representant of the President at the FLI Jena. In 2006, he appointed the Director of the Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Jena, Germany. In 2010, he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Prof. Neubauer has over 200 publications, 70 presentations, and many students in veterinary and human medicine. Prof. Neubauer is specialized in the development of diagnostics, epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, and microbiology of BSL 3 agents (Brucella spp., Francisella tularensis, Burkholderia mallei/pseudomallei, Bacillus anthracis, and Yersinia pestis).