Dr. Mieke Holder
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
Dr. Mieke Holder is an assistant professor in the department of animal and food sciences at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on the environmental impact of grazing animals, with a particular interest in mineral nutrition.
Before joining the faculty at UK, Holder worked for Alltech South Africa, where she established an in vitro research laboratory. Prior to that, she held a post-doctoral position at Alltech’s headquarters in Nicholasville, Kentucky, where she evaluated in-feed methane mitigation strategies for ruminants in vitro.
Holder received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in animal science, with a specialization in nutrition, from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a doctoral degree in equine nutrition from the University of Kentucky.
