Animal Welfare

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: (BSc Zoology, PhD Animal Behaviour) is Chief Scientific Adviser with The World Society for the Protection of Animals, based in London, UK. At the Poultry Research Centre and the University of Edinburgh, UK, he carried out research for 20 years on behaviour and welfare of farm animals, before a period with The Humane Society of the United States in Washington, DC. His most recent book is Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals (co-editor, 2008). Dr Appleby is a member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council (Farm Animal Welfare Committee from April 2011) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth and the Scottish Agricultural College.

Anna Olsson (I. A. S. Olsson) is Researcher and Group Leader at i3S-Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto since 2004. She has a background in animal science and holds a PhD in ethology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on behaviour and welfare of domestic (laboratory, farm and companion) animals and ethics of (animal) research and technology. She has established and coordinates training in laboratory animal science for researchers at i3S (FELASA accredited course). At the University of Porto, she has developed the ethics module for three PhD programs (PDN, GABBA, MCBiology) and is one of the founders of the interdisciplinary art-science module Biolaboratório. Anna Olsson chairs the institutional animal welfare and ethics review body since 2010. She is Trustee for Universities Federation of Animal Welfare / Humane Slaughter Association (since 2016) and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Swiss 3Rs Competence Centre (since 2018). She is Editorial board member for the journal Laboratory Animals (since 2004) and academic editor for PLOS ONE (since 2016). She is the co-editor of two textbooks Animal ethics in animal research (Cambridge University Press) and Animal Welfare (CABI International).

Francisco Galindo is a Professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He obtained a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the same University (1990) and later a PhD in Animal Behaviour and Welfare (Cambridge, UK, 1996). In 1995 he was appointed as Head of the Department of Ethology at UNAM and since then started teaching Animal Behaviour and Welfare to undergraduate and graduate students. He has supervised several graduate thesis on areas related to Applied Ethology, Animal Welfare, Sustainability and Conservation. He has been Coordinator of the Animal Welfare Committee of the National Animal Health Council in Mexico, as well as Programme Coordinator for the Latin American office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Through this work he contributed to the elaboration of Animal Welfare Legislation in Mexico and in other Latin American countries. He is Coordinator of the WOAH Collaborating Centre on Animal Welfare and Sustainable Livestock Systems. He has a strong interest in the integration of animal welfare and sustainability, and has published more than 80 scientific papers on those topics. He is co-editor of Etología Aplicada, one of the first publications of the topic in Spanish, and of Animal Welfare 3rd edition.