Professor Lewis Kahn

Professorial Research Fellow - Professor Livestock System - School of Environmental and Rural Science

Lewis Kahn

Phone: +61 2 6773 2997

Email: lkahn3@une.edu.au

Biography

Professor Lewis Kahn works with farmers, scientists, industries and government. He has specialist skills in the epidemiology of gastrointestinal nematode parasites of livestock, grazing and pasture management, ruminant nutrition, and development of biophysical models linking biology with climate to provide forecasts of livestock production and wellbeing. He is also the Director of UNE SMART Farms.

Qualifications

BRurSci

PhD

Primary Research Area/s

Landscape and agricultural sustainability; Grazing management and effects on animal production and natural resources; Nutritional and genetic regulation of host resistance to parasites of livestock; Ecology of major trichostrongylid parasites of sheep