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Dr Helen Lambert
Affiliation
Eurogroup for Animals/ Animal Welfare Consultancy
Biography
Helen Lambert is a freelance animal welfare scientist and founder of Animal Welfare Consultancy. She works with charities, governments, and corporations worldwide to improve animal welfare through evidence-based research, policy advice, and practical recommendations. Her work spans a wide range of animal welfare issues, including wildlife trade, farmed animal welfare, sentience science, welfare assessment, and animal welfare legislation. Helen has over 23 years of experience and training in the field of animal welfare and sentience science. She holds a PhD in Animal Sentience, an MSc in Research Methods, and a BSc (Hons) in Animal Behaviour, and has authored a wide range of scientific publications, reports, and policy-focused outputs.
Contact
lambert.helen@outlook.com
Dr Christina Pfeiffer
Affiliation
University of Veterinary Medicine (Vetmeduni) Vienna, Austria
Biography
Dr. Christina Pfeiffer is a livestock scientist specializing in pig husbandry, production and welfare. After studying livestock science with a focus on welfare and behaviour, she earned a PhD in quantitative genetics and animal breeding. Her early career centred on health, welfare, and behavioural traits in dairy cows and pigs, including developing and implementing a piglet vitality index for maternal breeding programs. After several years in the pig industry, she returned to academia to advance precision livestock technologies to assess animal-based indicators in pigs.
Contact
Christina.Pfeiffer@vetmeduni.ac.at
Dr Johannes Baumgartner
Affiliation
University of Veterinary Medicine (Vetmeduni) Vienna, Austria
Biography
Johannes Baumgartner is working at the University of Veterinary Medicine (Vetmeduni) Vienna, Austria, where he focuses on pig behaviour and management, including organic farming. He has been in actively involved in the development of free farrowing systems of sows and in precision livestock farming developments in the pig industry. Examples of his work include the automatic counting of piglets at birth and tracking of sows through eartag sensors.
Contact
Johannes.Baumgartner@vetmeduni.ac.at
Àngela Ramon Pérez
Affiliation
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
Biography
She holds degrees in Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine and is currently pursuing her PhD at the UAB. Her research focuses on the development and validation of technologies for monitoring pig welfare. She has experience in slaughterhouse-based welfare assessment, automated image analysis, and sensor technologies. Her work aims to transform animal-based data into practical tools for welfare assessment and farm-level decision-making.
Contact
angela.ramon@uab.cat
Dr. Pol Llonch
Affiliation
UAB, Spain
Biography
I am a veterinary scientist with expertise in farm animal behaviour, welfare assessment, stress physiology and precision livestock farming. My research combines behavioural analysis, physiological biomarkers and sensor technologies to develop innovative approaches for monitoring and improving animal welfare in livestock systems. I have extensive experience working with several farm species, particularly pigs and cattle, and have led and contributed to numerous European research projects in the field. I currently lead a research team at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona focused on advancing animal welfare science and its practical application on farms.
Contact
pol.llonch@uab.cat
Maite Jachens
Affiliation
Institute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behaviour, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Biography
Maite Jachens studied Veterinary Medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (TiHo) in Germany. She currently works as a research assistant and doctoral student at the Institute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behaviour at TiHo. Her research focuses on identifying and evaluating Best Practices to improve the welfare of fattening pigs and broiler chickens on farm, during transport and at the slaughterhouse. She is particularly interested in how scientific experts and farmers evaluate these practices, bringing together scientific evidence and practical experience to support feasible animal welfare improvements.
Contact
maite.marie.jachens@tiho-hannover.de
Prof. T. Bas Rodenburg
Affiliation
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Biography
Prof. T. Bas Rodenburg is Professor in Animal Welfare at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University in The Netherlands. The research of Bas Rodenburg aims at improving the methodology for assessment of animal welfare. Currently, he is project leader of the EUPAHW project, Eyes & Ears focusing of automatic monitoring of animal welfare on commercial farms. He is also work package leader in the EU project aWISH, focusing on monitoring animal welfare at the slaughterhouse. Rodenburg is a member of the Dutch Council on Animal Affairs (RDA) and has been one of the architects of the concept of Humane Livestock Farming in The Netherlands. He is also Joint Editor in Chief of the scientific journal ‘Animal Welfare’.
Contact
t.b.rodenburg@uu.nl
Prof. Thomas Banhazi
Affiliation
Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland and InnoTech Vision ApS., Tjele, Denmark
Biography
Thomas Banhazi completed his PhD studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia and worked at the University of Southern Queensland and at the Taiwan National University. As part of his academic activities, Thomas was involved in the delivery of 8 under- and 4 post-graduate courses and published in excess of 250 journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings. He has successfully obtained 8 patents on a number of innovative technologies in the US, Australia and Europe and he is currently actively engaged in the commercialisation of his patented inventions via his three private companies established in Europe and Australia. Thomas has been involved in approximately 40 research projects both in Europe and Australia and his expertise is mainly related to PLF applications and housing & environmental assessment methods.
Contact
thomas.banhazi@plfag.com
Dr. Petra Thobe
Affiliation
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Institute of Farm Economics, Braunschweig, Germany
Biography
Petra Thobe, Agricultural Economist, studied Agricultural Sciences with a specialization in Agricultural Economics in Bonn, Toulouse, and Tartu, and completed her PhD at the University of Göttingen. She has been leading the Poultry Production Economics working group at the Thünen Institute of Farm Economics since 2017 (research associate) and she coordinates the agri benchmark International Poultry Network, (Thünen Institute – Germany).
Contact
p.thobe@thuenen.de
Prof. Björn Forkman
Affiliation
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Biography
Björn Forkman was trained as a biologist at Lund University, and took his PhD at Stockholm University in the area of Ethology. His interest has mainly been in the mechanisms of behaviour, especially in the areas of learning/cognition and motivation, and how these interact. During later years his research has focused more and more on animal welfare, both assessment and melioration. Since his PhD he has mainly worked in the field of applied ethology, both in Sweden at the Agricultural University, at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh in Scotland and now at the faculty of Health Sciences - University of Copenhagen (the faculty is the former Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark).
Contact
bjf@sund.ku.dk
Dr Noémie Van Noten
Affiliation
ILVO (Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
Biography
Noémie Van Noten has a Master and a PhD in Bioscience Engineering – Agriculture. After 2 years of building experience as an R&D manager in a feed additive company, she joined the ILVO Animal Science unit in 2022, where she is working as a researcher on projects focusing on animal welfare and animal nutrition.
Contact
noemie.vannoten@ilvo.vlaanderen.be
Prof. Frank Tuyttens
Affiliation
ILVO, Merelbeke-Melle, Belgium
Biography
Frank Tuyttens is coordinator of Farm Animal Welfare & Behaviour research at the ILVO, parttime visiting professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Gent University, and member of the EFSA Animal Health and Animal Welfare panel. He has supervised 20 PhD students and authored >200 peer-reviewed papers on farm animal welfare and ethology. He is scientific coordinator of the aWISH project.
Contact
frank.tuyttens@ilvo.vlaanderen.be
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