Victor Olori

Dr Victor E. Olori completed a bachelor's degree (B. Agric) in general Agriculture and a Masters degree (MSc.) in Animal Science from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He worked briefly as a lecturer in Nigeria before proceeding for a Ph.D. in quantitative genetics in Edinburgh University. Upon completion of the PhD in 1997, Victor served as a postdoc at the University College Dublin before joining the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation where as a pioneer Geneticist, he helped with the setting up and operation of the genetic evaluation unit for dairy and beef cattle evaluation. He worked here until 2005 when he joined Aviagen as a systems' geneticist. He is currently a Senior Geneticist for Aviagen managing the genetic evaluation of all turkey and chicken pure lines in four breeding programs located across the UK and US. Victor's research interest is currently focussed on the genetic improvement of reproductive efficiency in chickens and turkeys. In the past he has worked with indigenous chickens of Nigeria, sheep breeding in Ireland, dairy and cattle breeding and now broiler chicken and turkey breeding with Aviagen.