Maarten Nauta is employed as Senior Researcher at the department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention of Statens Serum Institut (SSI) in Denmark, focusing on foodborne diseases and risk assessment. Educated as mathematical biologist, he previously worked at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands and the National Food Institute of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he, among others, specialised in quantitative microbiological risk assessment, the development of methods for “farm to fork” risk assessments and risk-benefit assessments of foods.

He is the (co-) author of more than 150 scientific publications in international peer reviewed journals (Google Scholar h-index 56). Next to national and international advisory work, he gave courses in risk asessment at University and for Food Safety professionals all over the world, and supervised Master students, PhD students and post-docs in risk assessment and related disciplines. 

He is co-editor in chief of the journal “Microbial Risk Analysis”, since 2017 he is member of the International Committee of Predictive Modelling in Foods and since 2018 he is member of the European Food Safety Authorities’ expert Panel for biological hazards.