Stephen Mutoloki is an Associate  Professor in the research group "Host-pathogen interactions in infection and immunity" at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. He is a veterinarian by training, with both Bachelor and Master of Veterinary Medicine degrees from University of Zambia, Lusaka  Zambia and a PhD from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NSVS), Oslo in 2007.

He has been involved in research on fish for more than 19 years, starting with injection-site side-effects following vaccination of salmonids with oil-based vaccines. After his PhD, he focussed more on host-pathogen interactions, mainly with infectious pancreasis necrosis and pancreas disease viruses. Areas of interest are mechanisms of pathogenesis and host responses including induction of protective immunity. 

During the last 7 years, he has been leading a research project on capacity building in East and Southern Africa (Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda) through a NORAD-funded (Norhed) research programme, focusing on training of young research scientists. Through this project, there has been a lot of focus on tilapia lake virus, infectious pancreatic necrosis and infectious hematopoietic necrosis viruses as well as diagnostic methods and pathogenesis studies. 

He has also recently started research work on bacteriophages, focusing first on phages against Yersinia ruckerii in Atlantic salmon.