Speaker bio page for Professor Anna Valros

Bio

Professor Anna Valros has a Master of Science in Zoology (1998), and a PhD in animal behaviour and welfare (2003) from the University of Helsinki, Finland. Since 2008 she has been appointed as Professor of Animal Welfare at the Department of Production Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki. Her main research area is behaviour and welfare of pigs, with tail biting prevention and aetiology being one of her focuses. She has coordinated two international projects on tail biting in pigs, including the EU-ERAnet project FareWellDock.