Kiki Streng

My name is Kiki Streng, and I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Public Health Virology group at Erasmus MC, for Frontrunner 1: Climate change and vectorborne virus outbreaks, with a specific focus on the inundation of the Eendragtspolder. I will focus on analyzing all the data gathered before, during and after the inundation. I am a veterinarian (graduated in 2017), and obtained a PhD on surveillance of zoonotic arboviruses in animals from Wageningen University & Research in the OneHealthPACT project (December 2024). Currently I work two days a week as a small animal veterinarian, which I combine with my role as a postdoc at Erasmus MC.

During my PhD I focused on surveillance of zoonotic mosquito-borne viruses in a One Health context. Furthermore, I learned a lot from my fellow OneHealthPACT colleagues focusing on related topics such as mosquito ecology, climate scenarios, citizen science etc. I will use the knowledge and skills I acquired during my PhD to continue to study this complex system with its many interactions between humans, animals and the environment. As we face great challenges related to climate change, I am very much interested in the effects of these changes on animals, humans and the environment. I hope that our research focused on the effects of these changes can help provide more insight on how to keep our environment, animals and human healthy.

Her research outputs can be reached via ORCID.