Dr. Nicole Gollnick is Deputy Head of the Executive Office of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and is part of the BfR International Affairs Team. A strong focus of her work lies on international capacity building and international collaboration. In this capacity she currently co-chairs the EFSA Advisory Form Discussion Group on Capacity Building and is member of the programme committee of the EFSA EU-FORA fellowship programme.

Nicole Gollnick received her doctoral degree in veterinary medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich. She worked for 10 years as a clinician, researcher, and lecturer at the veterinary faculty in Munich where she specialized in Bovine Health Management. Nicole Gollnick has more than 10 years of experience in international collaboration and project management acquired in both development aid and science. She joined the BfR in 2015.