Dr. Len Lipman is Associate professor at the Division Veterinary Public Health, Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is responsible for the education on the fields of food safety, zoonoses and microbiology. responsible for the research of PhD students (topics: Salmonella infections in pigs, Campylobacter infections in poultry). Furthermore he is coordinating all education subjects like planning and control, management tasks and developments of new education.