Vice President for Research

Professor Dr. Michael Pees

Professor Dr. Michael Pees is Head of the Department of Small Mammal, Reptile and Avian Medicine and Surgery at the TiHo since July 2021. Since August 2024 he is Vice President for Research. Pees studied veterinary medicine at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. For his doctorate, he moved to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Leipzig University and carried out cardiac ultrasound examinations on parrots. After his dissertation, he habilitated in Leipzig in the field of avian and reptile diseases on infectious lung diseases in snakes. He was appointed Associate Professor in 2015. From 2019 to 2021, he was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Leipzig.

His research focuses on infectious diseases in reptiles and birds, imaging techniques and wildlife rehabilitation. Pees is a specialist veterinarian for ornamental, zoo and wild birds, a specialist veterinarian for reptiles, a specialist veterinarian for poultry and a double Diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine (avian and herpetology).