Professor Angela Brueggemann, University of Oxford

Angela Brueggemann has worked at the University of Oxford since 2000 and joined her current department in 2019. She established the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit (IDEU) in 2022. The IDEU is currently comprised of eight PIs and their research groups, who investigate a wide range of diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites.

The Brueggemann research group analyses thousands of bacterial genomes to better understand diseases like meningitis and pneumonia, and the impact of vaccination and antimicrobial resistance. Current research projects include the Invasive Respiratory Infection Surveillance (IRIS) Consortium, a large international consortium of microbiology reference laboratories investigating the impact of the pandemic on the epidemiology of bacterial invasive disease, and other projects that are investigating bacteriocin peptides that might have potential as novel antimicrobials. A central component of their research includes making genomic data and analysis tools freely accessible to the international community through PubMLST.