ManyPigs features early-career researchers with expertise in several facets of pig behaviour and welfare, across 9 global institutions.
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Dr Céline Tallet
Dr Céline Tallet
INRAE (France)
Céline is a Research Director at the PEGASE (https://eng-pegase.rennes.hub.inrae.fr/) research unit of INRAE (French National Institute for Food, Agriculture and the Environment), Saint Gilles, Brittany, France. She is leading the welfare group. She is an ethologist, specialist of pig-human relationship and vocal communication. She has experience studying pig behaviour and welfare, and focuses now her studies on pig emotions and positive welfare. She appreciates understanding the human perception of practices aiming at improving pig welfare, and being involved in co-built projects with different stakeholders. She is also keen on working with AI specialists to decipher pigs’ emotions. More information
Dr Jen-Yun Chou
Dr Jen-Yun Chou
Prairie Swine Centre (Canada)
Jen is a Research Scientist at the Prairie Swine Centre and Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She is leading the ethology and welfare group at the Centre. Her background is multidisciplinary at the interface of applied animal behaviour, welfare and social science. She has experience working as an animal welfare advisor at international non-profit organisations and has conducted research at various research institutes across Europe and North America. Her research projects collaboratively explore issues surrounding ending piglet painful procedures and providing pigs of all stages with a better physical and social environment.
Dr Mathilde Coutant
Dr Mathilde Coutant
Aarhus University (Denmark)
Mathilde is a postdoctoral scientist at Aarhus University. Her work focuses on monitoring welfare and behaviour in pigs and other farm animals, particularly through the use of novel technologies. Her current research primarily investigates bioacoustic approaches to assess affective states, behaviour, and physiological conditions across diverse livestock species, with an emphasis on the validity, applicability, and sustainability of these technologies in practice. Mathilde is also involved in teaching lectures on pig behaviour and on pain and stress assessment for animal science and biomedical students. More information.
Dr Sébastien Goumon
Dr Sébastien Goumon
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Sébastien is an animal welfare scientist at ETH Zurich. He has worked on the social behaviour of pigs, and their welfare during transport and within the farrowing environment. His current research investigates affiliative behaviour and relationship in pigs and the use of salivary oxytocin as a potential indicator of pig welfare. Alongside his research, Sébastien teaches animal welfare and behaviour at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. More information
Dr Charlotte Goursot
Dr Charlotte Goursot
BLV (Switzerland)
Charlotte began her research on pigs during her PhD at the FBN Dummerstorf (Germany), where she focused on behavioural laterality (asymmetries of behaviour, where each brain hemisphere controls the contralateral part of the body), a promising approach for classifying individuals with different brain organisations. Building on this work, she went on to investigate the neural foundations of personality during her Postdoc at the Vetmeduni Vienna (Austria). There, she developed a new behavioural test (the BIBAGO) that she combined with brain MRI measurements. She is currently a research associate at the Centre for Proper Housing of Ruminants and Pigs (Agroscope, Posieux), working under the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office. While her primary focus has shifted to ruminants, she continues to collaborate on pig-related research projects.
Dr Megan Lucas
Dr Megan Lucas
The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Megan is an animal welfare scientist from The Animal Welfare Science Centre at The University of Melbourne. Her PhD research explored themes related to early-life experiences and human-pig interactions, and her current research activities have a focus on thermal comfort and piglet mortality in outdoor systems. Megan enjoys teaching animal welfare and behaviour at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and is passionate about inspiring the next generation of pig welfare scientists.
Dr Michaela Masilkova
Dr Michaela Masilkova
Czech University of Life sciences (Czechia)
Michaela Másílková is an Assistant Professor in the Wildlife and Behaviour Management team at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Her research focuses on the use of technological tools to study the behaviour and welfare of wild suids, with particular interest in animal personality, cognition and the social behaviour of wild boar. More information.
Dr Séverine Parois
Dr Séverine Parois
ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health, France)
Séverine Parois is a researcher scientist at the ANSES Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort laboratory, France. She conducts projects related to pig welfare with multidisciplinary approaches at the intersection of behaviour and physiology. Her current research focusses on studying the beneficial effects of providing optimal housing systems on welfare and resilience. She enjoys participating in work on positive welfare assessment.
Dr Maria Vilain Rørvang
Dr Maria Vilain Rørvang
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)
Maria Vilain Rørvang is a senior lecturer at Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden in the research group of Animal-Centered Environments. In her role as a researcher at SLU Maria teaches BSc, MSc and PhD level courses, supervises students, and communicates research at various levels in addition to conducting research. Her research focus is in particular understanding the perceptual and cognitive capacities of domestic animals, which ultimately can improve housing systems and management, as well as enhance the enjoyment of humans and animals working/living together.
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