Prof. Dr. Samuel E. Aggrey is a Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia. He obtained his BSc in Animal Science at the University of Ghana. He obtained his
MSc with Distinction at Wageningen University. He obtained a PhD in Quantitative Genetics and Poultry Breeding at the University of British Columbia. In 2020, he was awarded an endowed chair as the Richard B Russell Professor. He is also an affiliate member of the Institute of Bioinformatics at the University of Georgia and an affiliate scientist at Biosciences East and Central Africa (International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya). He is currently a visiting Professor at the Department of Animal Science at the University of Ghana. He is a co-editor of “Poultry Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology” and the lead editor for “Advances in Poultry Genetics and Genomics”. His notable awards include the Jaap Memorial Lectureship at Ohio State University, the D.W. Brooks Award of Excellence for Research, Career Development Recognition from the University of Georgia, The Broiler Research Award from the Poultry Science Association, and the World’s Poultry Science Association P. B. Siegel Research Award. His research areas include nutrigenomics, molecular basis of stressors (heat, Eimeria species, Salmonella, etc.), genotype–nutrition interactions, and developing statistical models for genome selection.
