Anna-Katarina Schilling

PhD Student
(2016-2019)

Anna qualified as a veterinarian from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany in 2010. She worked in ambulant equine and small animal practice and equine medical product management in Germany and completed a research project looking at animal welfare and zoonotic disease risk in small ruminants used in human-animal-interventions on city farms. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a  MVetSci degree in Conservation Medicine and has volunteered with wildlife in several countries.

She started her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in September 2016 on a Principal’s Career Development PhD scholarship. Her project focusses on leprosy in Eurasian red squirrels – an ancient human disease in a newly discovered conservation sensitive wildlife reservoir. She is an avid research communicator and is interested in conservation and veterinary medicine, zoonotic disease, animal welfare, and wider wildlife and conservation topics.