Christian Gortázar, National Wildlife Research Institute IREC

Hunting and infections shared with wildlife

Christian Gortázar defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Zaragoza in 1997. He is a professor of animal health at the National Wildlife Research Institute IREC, a joint center between the University of Castilla – La Mancha and the CSIC, in Ciudad Real, Spain.

He is also the chief editor of the European Journal of Wildlife Research. His research activity combines ecology and veterinary sciences to provide solutions to emerging health problems such as tuberculosis or African swine fever.