Dr. Alexandra Fetsch, MSc, is a veterinary microbiologist and a leading expert in foodborne pathogens,

particularly toxinogenic bacteria such as S. aureus, antimicrobial resistance, and microbial risk assessment.

Alexandra conducts research along the farm to fork food chain focusing on one health aspects in European

and African context. She has been heading for years the German National Reference Laboratory for coagulase

positive staphylococci including S. aureus at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

and is currently working as a senior PostDoc at the Institute for Food Microbiology at the Ludwig-Maxiilians-University Munich, Germany.

She has also a M.Sc. in Science Marketing and is about to finalize her residency at the European College of Veterinary Public Health,

subspeciality Food Safety. Alexandra lives in Berlin with her family. She has two young boys and two crazy dogs with whom she loves to

sports, play and travel.