Acad. prof. Tatjana Avšič - Županc, BSc (Biol), PhD

Prof. Tatjana Avšič-Županc is a virologist. She is the Head of the Laboratory for diagnosis of Zoonoses at the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has more than 30 years of experience in the clinical diagnostics and research of zoonotic vector-borne diseases, mainly arboviruses and viral haemorrhagic fevers represented in more than 180 publications. Her laboratory has the role of reference centre at the national and international level, for Hantaviruses, TBE and CCHF viruses and has been a WHO Collaborating Centre for Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers. Prof. Avšič-Županc and her colleagues conduct research on genetic variability and pathogenesis of vector-borne pathogens with the relation to their host-vector-man relationship. Prof. Avšič-Županc is a full professor of Medical Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana and the head of research activity at the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology. She is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Art and over the past 20 years she has been a principal investigator on numerous national and international research projects.