Diana Meemken holds a DVM in veterinary medicine from the University of Leipzig, Germany. She is a Diplomate of the European College of Porcine Health Management and an accredited specialist for pigs in Germany.

Since 2017, she is a full professor of meat hygiene at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Furthermore she leads the FAO Reference Centre for Veterinary Public Health in Berlin.

The core elements of her research activities are investigating the ecology and the epidemiology of zoonotic pathogens in food producing animals and food products as well as designing intervention strategies along the food chain. In her research activities, she furthermore focuses on the continuous enhancement of the effectiveness of the risk-based meat inspection by developing and verifying evaluation systems for food safety, herd health and animal welfare.