2021 - present, Professor of One Health and Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht University

2020 - present, Head One Health Microbial group

2018 - 2021, Associate Professor, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2013 - 2018, Assistant Professor, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2009 – 2013, Researcher, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2008 – 2009, Postdoctoral fellow, INSERM, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Paris, France

2007, Visiting researcher, INSERM, Paris, France

2003 – 2008, PhD student, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2001 – 2002, Consultant, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Education

2008, PhD, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

2001, MSc (with highest honors), Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Selection of Awards/Personal Grants

• NWO ASPASIA, personal grant (2018) 
• European Respiratory Society/European Lung Foundation, Healthy Lungs for Life Award for best abstract (2016).
• Aart van Keulen prize (2010). Best article in Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde (2007-2009) on veterinary public health.
• European Respiratory Society, young scientist sponsorship to attend ERS conferences (2009 and 2010).
• NWO/French Dutch Academy, Van Gogh travel grant for French-Dutch cooperation (2009).
• EAACI-GA2LEN exchange fellowship award (2008), used for postdoctoral fellowship in Paris.

Key publications

• Oude Munnink BB, Sikkema RS, Nieuwenhuijse DF, ..., Smit LAM, Stegeman A, van der Poel WHM, Koopmans MPG. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on mink farms between humans and mink and back to humans. Science 2020 Nov 10.
• Van Gompel L, Luiken REC, Sarrazin S, Munk P, ..., Smit LAM. The antimicrobial resistome in relation to antimicrobial use and biosecurity in pig farming, a metagenome-wide association study in nine European countries. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2019; 74: 865-876.
• Munk P, Knudsen BE, Lukjancenko O, Duarte AS, Van Gompel L, Luiken REC, Smit LAM, ..., Aarestrup FM. Abundance and diversity of the faecal resistome in slaughter pigs and broilers in nine European countries. Nature Microbiology, 2018; 3, 898-908.
• Borlée F, Yzermans CJ, Krop EJM, Maassen CBM, Schellevis FG, Heederik DJJ, Smit LAM. Residential proximity to livestock farms is associated with a lower prevalence of atopy. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2018; 75, 453-460.
• Borlée F, Yzermans CJ, Aalders B, Rooijackers J, Krop E, Maassen CBM, Schellevis F, Brunekreef B, Heederik D, Smit LAM. Air pollution from livestock farms is associated with airway obstruction in neighboring residents. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2017; 196: 1152-1161.
• Eddleston M, Karalliedde L, Buckley N, Fernando R, Hutchinson G, Isbister G, Konradsen F, Murray D, Piola JC, Senanayake N, Sheriff R, Singh S, Siwach SB, Smit L. Pesticide poisoning in the developing world - a minimum pesticides list. Lancet 2002; 360: 1163-7.