Jens JacobDr. Jens Jacob studied ecology and zoology in Jena, Germany and Miami, FL, USA. His scientific focus is on applied rodent research. Following positions at CSIRO Wildlife Research and the Pest Animal Cooperative Research Centre (Australia), he became he leader of the Rodent Research Group of the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture) in Münster, Germany. His research interests include 1) rodent population management that is ecologically and economically sustainable in various systems and various regions of the world, 2) assessing and mediating risk associated with rodent management and 3) the ecology of rodent-borne pathogens ad 4) predictive models for forecasting rodent outbreaks and zoonotic risk to help to take early and optimal action. In the past 30 years, Dr. Jacob has conducted laboratory, enclosure and field-based projects in Asia, Australia, Europe and the Pacific funded by national and international donors. He has published >170 scientific articles, chairs expert groups and is subject editor vertebrates for international peer-reviewed journals. Read More Read Less