Marion Koopmans

Biosketch

Prof. Marion Koopmans is director of the Department of Viroscience at Erasmus Medical Centre in The Netherlands, WHO collaborating centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, scientific director for Emerging Infectious Diseases of the Netherlands Centre for One Health NCOH and scientific director of the Pandemic and Disaster Preparedness Centre in Rotterdam/Delft The Netherlands. She has been awarded an honorary doctorate of the Danish Technical University and a fellowship of the Royal Water research institute.
Koopmans has led several large-scale research consortia. She is currently the PI of the national network on arbovirus research OHPACT, and an EU funded consortium VEO, which develops a risk based innovative early warning surveillance in a One Health context, and is deputy coordinator of a recently awarded HERA funded network of centres of excellence for EID research preparedness, DURABLE. In 2021, Koopmans founded the Pandemic and Disaster Preparedness Centre PDPC, a research centre with a focus on the occurrence and prevention of pandemics and climate-related disasters, combining expertise from technical, bio-medical, environmental and social sciences.

Research Interests

Her research focuses on emerging infections with special emphasis on unravelling pathways of disease emergence and spread at the human animal interface. Creating global networks to fight infectious diseases systematically and on a large scale is a common thread in Koopmans' work. She also is very interested in translation of scientific data for policy makers and communicating about science to lay audiences. For that, she has received prestigious awards. She is an elected member of the Dutch National Academy of sciences and has been awarded the Stevin prize, the highest awards for research of international standing in the country https://www.nwo.nl/en/nwo-stevin-prize.