General information
Date of Birth: April 14, 1966
Current Position: Personal professor Animal Health Management
Expertise (key words): Animal health economics, simulation modelling, veterinary epidemiology, production diseases, dairy cattle
 
Qualifications
The work field of Henk Hogeveen is at the cross roads of economics and veterinary epidemiology. He works to support decisions on animal health management, primarily on production diseases in dairy cattle, although other animals or other types of diseases are sometimes also studied. Economic modelling is an important aspect of the work.
 
Career
1994: PhD at the Veterinary Faculty of Utrecht University
1994-1996: Research at the Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering
1996-1997: Researcher on animal health management at the Applied research institute for dairy farming
1997-2001: Functions as head of the milk quality group and later expertise leader on animal health and milk quality in the Applied Animal Husbandry Institute in Lelystad (nowadays Livestock Research of Wageningen UR)
2001-2005: Assistant professor Animal Health Economics at Wageningen University
2005-2010: Associate professor Animal Health Economics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University
2010-2013: Associate professor Animal Health Economics at Wageningen University, associated with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University
2014- now: Personal professor Animal Health Management at Wageningen University, associated with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University
 
(Co)-supervisor PhD students
Completed PhD theses with year of completion:
2004: F. Neijenhuis
2007: B. Vosough Ahmadi
2009: T. Halasa
2009: J. Ellis-Iversen
2009: K. Huijps
2010: W. Steeneveld
2010: C. Kamphuis
2011: C. Inchaisri
2012: M.R.M. Bruijnis
2014: M. Derks
 
PhD students under guidance: 12
 
Publication record
Until now, Henk Hogeveen has published 115 papers in peer-reviewed journals (97 in ISI Q1 journals) leading to an h-factor of 22, 22 and 30 respectively in ISI web of science, Scopus and Google Scholar. Besides, he has  numerous publications in scientific proceedings (editor of ten scientific proceedings), books and professional journals.
One of his recent papers (Rutten et al., 2013) was announced to be the most downloaded paper from the Journal of Dairy Science in 2013.
 
Teaching record
During his years working at a university (since 2001), Henk Hogeveen has spent approximately 40 % of his time on teaching, I has contributed to sixteen courses at the BSc, MSc and PhD level. Besides that he has been guest teacher in the post-academic Masters course of the University of Sydney. The most important courses  he teaches are:
Epidemiology, breeding and economics (BSc level; only teaching no coordination)
Economic concepts and principles for the veterinary sciences (post-initial MSc/PhD level); both face to face as on-line
Applied economic modelling for the veterinary sciences (Post-initial MSc/PhD level); both face to face as on-line
Economic principles for the veterinary practice (BSc level)
The student evaluations of Henk’s teaching activities have always been good, ranging from 3.8 to 4.7 (on a scale from 1-5) for the Wageningen courses and from 8.1 to 8.7 on a scale from 1-10) for the Utrecht and e-learning courses. From the board of the Utrecht University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Henk got in 2009 the following comment for a post-academic MSc course: “We are extremely satisfied to find that students value the overall quality of your course extremely high. The rating for overall quality for your course leaves nothing to be desired other than maintaining these high standards in your future teaching”.