Rafael Nickel

Professor Nickel qualified from Hannover Veterinary School in 1983 and his career has spanned research, small animal practice and academia. He joined Utrecht University in 1989, where he worked as a specialist and lecturer in surgery and urology – and completed his PhD on canine urinary incontinence – before becoming a partner and manager at a private small animal clinic near Hamburg. As well as holding the ECVS Diploma in small animal surgery, he has Dutch recognition as a small animal surgery specialist and is a visiting lecturer at both the Free University of Berlin and Justus-Liebig University in Giessen.