Prof. Dr. Nicola Decaro is a professor at the Department of Veterinary Medicine of Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, in 2009. He was an Assistant (2002–2004) and Associate (2005–2016) Professor of Infectious Diseases of Animals (SSD VET/05) at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Italy, and a visiting scientist at the Virology Divisions of the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine of Zurich (2003), Giessen (2004), Utrecht (2005), and at the National Animal Disease Center, USDA, Ames, IA (2013). Since May 2024, he has been the President of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology.