Post-Doctoral Fellows
The Kutz Research Group often has one or more Post-Doctoral Fellows who have their own research projects and help the entire group in a variety of ways.
Fabien Mavrot
Fabien is a Swiss veterinarian with a strong interest in wildlife and epidemiology. He wrote his veterinary thesis on infectious keratoconjunctivitis in Alpine Ibex and Chamois at the Center for Fish and Wildlife Health at the University of Bern and subsequently completed a PhD on gastro-intestinal parasites of domestic ruminants at the Section for Veterinary Epidemiology of the University of Zürich. Fabien is currently employed as a postdoc at the Department of Ecosystem and Public Health of the University of Calgary. His project focus on improving our understanding of muskox health in the Canadian Arctic. he will use a participatory approach combined with regression analysis to gain insight on the epidemiological processes driving muskox population. In particular, he is interested in pathogens that might be new to the Arctic, such as the bacteria Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae or expanding their range such as the lungworm Umingmakstrongylus pallikuukensis.
Eleanor Dickinson
Eleanor is a Postdoctoral Research Associate from the UK. Her research interests focus on the interactions between host movement and their parasites, and how these relationships may shift with climate change. She recently completed her PhD at Queen’s University Belfast, working on the use of biologging tools to measure movement and energy expenditure as well as predicting the transmission of gastrointestinal parasites in Alpine ibex. Her work will focus on the relationship between host body condition and parasite infection, to enable a better understanding of how parasites impact ungulate hosts in the Arctic. In her free time Eleanor loves to backpack, ski, horse ride and swim.
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