Michel Counotte studied veterinary medicine at Ghent University, Belgium. After 6 years as small animal practitioner he started the epidemiology postgraduate program at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. As part of this program he will be doing a one year internship. He will be working on zoonoses in Kyrgyzstan, with a special interest in Echinococcus.
 

Michel left our group to do a PhD programme at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Bern.