Annemarie Pielaat

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM
Bilthoven Netherlands

Biographical Sketch: Annemarie Pielaat has a Masters in Mathematical Biology in the field of ecotoxicology at the Free University of Amsterdam. Her Ph.D. graduation was on ‘Splash Dispersal of Plant Pathogens’ at the Wageningen University, after which she had a two year post-doc position at the University of Alberta, where she did research on ‘Long-distance Seed Dispersal’. Currently, she works at the Dutch Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Her main interest is in setting up biologically relevant experiments, sampling plans and subsequent statistical data analysis as input for microbiological risk assessment. The last few years she has been working on methodology development for the implementation of molecular data in Hazard Characterisation.

Papers:
Risk-based Sampling, Optimal Sampling Design: Perspective from the Dutch Institute for Public Health and the Environment
T5-03 Phenotypic Behavior of 35 Salmonella enterica Serovars Compared to Epidemiological and Genomic Data