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Wilhelm Tham

Position: Professor School/office: School of Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Meal Science

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Wilhelm Tham

About Wilhelm Tham

He was born on April 11, 1951 in Stockholm. He became authorized Swedish Veterinarian in 1976. VMD (PhD) in Food Hygiene in 1989 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Research fellow in Food Hygiene with special reference to food microbiology in 1995. Specialist in Food Hygiene in 2003. Professor in Food Microbiology in 2004 at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science. Currently visiting professor at the School of Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Meal Science, Grythyttan, Örebro University.

He has been supervising students at the bachelor, MSc and PhD level mainly concerning different aspects food hygiene. His research is focused on Listeria monocytogenes and the food-borne disease listeriosis. He has been awarded grants mainly from the Research Foundation of Ivar and Elsa Sandberg, Veterinarian Billström’s Foundation and SJFR. He has been honoured by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA) for exemplary efforts within pedagogy and teaching at the Swedish University of Agricultural in 1989. In 2016 he received a scholarship from Erik Johan Ljungberg’s Education Fund. Students reasons included ‘‘The teacher practising good education through training and guidance, and take the time to listen and care about she students...’’

 

He has been opponent of disputations, member of evaluation committees and consulted as an expert and is referee for international journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Epidemiology and Infection, Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, Letters in Applied Microbiology and Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Disease

Together with Prof. M-L Danielsson-Tham he was scientific organizer of the international symposium ‘‘Food Associated Pathogens’’ in 1996, Uppsala, the ‘‘Nordic PFGE meeting’’ in 2000, Uppsala, the ‘‘International Symposium on Problems of Listeriosis’’ in 2004, Uppsala and the ‘‘2nd Symposium on Food Associated Pathogens’’ in 2010, Grythyttan.

He is member of the editorial board for ‘‘Foodborne Pathogens & Disease’’

Internationella samarbetspartner

Professor Sophia Kathariou, North Carolina State University, USA

Todd Ward, United States Department of Agriculture, USA

S.B. Barbuddhe, National Institute of Biotic Stress Management, Raipur Chattisgarh, India

Augusto Valencia Ramirez, Médico Patologo Clinico, Lima, Peru

Richard V. Goering, School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Semir Loncarevic, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway

Peter Gerner-Smidt, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

Anne Kvistholm Jensen,  Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Nationella samarbetspartner

Håkan Ringberg, Smittskydd Skåne, Malmö

Öjar Melefors, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Lena Sundqvist och Cecilia Jernberg, Smittskyddsinstitutet, Stockholm

Viveca Båverud, SVA, Uppsala

Ivar Vågsholm, BVF, SLU, Uppsala

Susanne Thisted-Lambertz, SLV, Uppsala

Publications

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Articles in journals

Articles, reviews/surveys

Books

Chapters in books

Conference papers

Conference proceedings (editor)

Daily newspapers

Manuscripts

Other

Reports