A. (Alex) Bossers

Dr. Alex Bossers is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University's Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), within the Department of Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. He concurrently holds a part-time position initiating the multi-omics expertise team at Wageningen BioVeterinary Research (WUR).

Education includes a PhD from Utrecht University (1999) on prion disease transmissibility and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Manchester.

Research focuses on One Health integration across human, animal, and environmental domains through metagenomics and molecular epidemiology. Key interests include: microbiome/resistome analysis, pathogen surveillance (e.g., VGO3 project on goat farm pathogens), environmental DNA/RNA analysis for biosecurity, and multi-omics biomarker discovery. Methodologies emphasize next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics pipelines, and data analytics.

Recent publications (200+ career total) predominantly explore antimicrobial resistance dynamics, livestock microbiomes, pathogen surveillance, and prion biology. Dominant themes include One Health applications of metagenomics (75% of recent works), livestock-associated AMR transmission (60%), and microbiome functionality in disease pathogenesis.

Leads European/public-private projects; coordinates the VGO3 project linking livestock pathogens to human pneumonia. Board member of Dutch KNVM Microbial Genomics division. Manages multi-omics analytics teams at IRAS and WBVR.