Pamela Burger graduated in 2004 as a veterinarian at the Vetmeduni Vienna with a special focus on mitochondrial disorders in cheetahs and snow leopards. Immediately afterwards, she started her first project about the genetic origin and domestication of Old World camels. One of the main objectives was to identify the genetic origin and species status of the last wild two-humped camels in Mongolia and China, and the process of domestication in dromedaries and Bactrian camels. In 2015, she founded the International Camel Consortium for Genomic Improvement and Conservation together with colleagues from Italy, Saudi Arabia, France, and Kuwait. In 2021, Pamela Burger acquired her habilitation (equivalent to Associate Professor) in the field of "animal genetics and conservation" and is head of the Population and Conservation Genetics group at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Vetmeduni Vienna; her current project investigates the immune genome of camels in response to economically relevant and zoonotic diseases. Her latest publications (2020/2021) appeared in the Nature group journal Communications Biology about genomic selection signals during domestication in Old World camels and global migration patterns in dromedaries, and in Cells about immune responses in dromedaries to MERS infection.