Dr Anna Olsson DVM, PhD
Postdoctoral research fellow Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology - IBMC Porto, Portugal

Dr Olsson has an MSc in agronomy (animal sciences) and a PhD in ethology. During the period 1996-2001 she worked in farm animal behaviour and welfare both as a researcher and for the Swedish agricultural ministry.

Since 2001, she has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology in Porto, Portugal. Her research activities address two topics: the behaviour and welfare of laboratory mice and bioethical aspects of animal research and biotechnology. She is also involved in teaching laboratory animal science for researchers and research students, and she chairs the Institutional Animal Ethics Commitee. She is Assistant Secretary of International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE).

She is a tutor for English and Portuguese speaking groups in teh Animal Welfare and Animal Ethics courses.

Dr Anthony L. Podborseck BVSc (Hons), PhD
Research Associate Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr Podborseck obtained his veterinary degree and Ph.D. (human-animal interactions and animal behaviour) from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Since June 1992, he has been working at the University of Cambridge conducting research into dog behaviour problems, pets and human health, and attitudes to animals and animal issues.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Anthrozoös, the premier journal on human-animal interaction studies.

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Dr Murray Corke DVM, PhD
Veterinary Surgeon in Practice and Part-time lecture at the School of Veterinary Medicine , University of Cambridge

Dr Corke has been involved in mixed and small animal veterinary practices in Cambridgeshire, is a University Assistant Physician, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge with responsibility for referred equine medical cases and farm work. Lecturing on ovine medicine, large animal therapeutics and bovine mastitis

He was Chairman of Examiners, Final Veterinary Medicine, Vet M and referee for Equine Veterinary Journal and Equine Veterinary Education. He worked in , working on zoonotic diseases. as treasurer of RVC West Africa Research Team.

His interestes are Natural history and Conservation. Is is a member of the Broads Society, and of Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust, especially with the Cambridgeshire Badger and Otter Group.

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Jasmijn de Boo BSc (Hon), MSc, DipEd
Education and Training Co-ordinator, Operations Department,
World Society for the Protection of Animals
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island

Jasmijn de Boo, is the Education and Training Co-ordinator at the World Society for the Protection for Animals (WSPA, HQ, London). She has worked for four years at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) for the European Resource Centre for Alternatives in higher education (EURCA). She has designed an Animal Care course at vocational level and taught for three years. She also developed a module on literature searching strategies on alternatives for higher education.

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Dr Lotta Berg, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor

Swedish Animal Welfare Agency, Sweden

Dr Berg has a MSc in veterinary medicine and worked at a large animal practice before she joined the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where she was a PhD student during 1993-1998. She got her PhD in the epidemiology of management related diseases in broilers and turkeys. She has been working with housing and management of poultry in relation to the animals’ health and behaviour, and also actively participated in the development of the animal welfare monitoring programmes for broilers, turkey and laying hens in Sweden. She has also been involved in research on animal welfare oriented calf rearing methods in dairy production and improved management systems for fattening pigs. She has been a member of the EU working group on broiler welfare, and chairman of the FVE working group on the same topic.

She has been tutoring veterinary undergraduate students and animal welfare inspectors, and also supervised a number of PhD students in animal hygiene and ethology. She is currently working at the recently launched Swedish Animal Welfare Agency in Skara, a governmental authority that is responsible for the animal welfare legislation, handles research funding and informs the public about animal welfare issues for all animals kept by humans.

Professor Mateus Paranhos-da-Costa PhD
Professor Universidade Estadual do Sao Paulo. Brazil His website

Dr Paranhos-da-Costa is professor of animal behaviour and welfare. Besides his successful research programme in wildlife and conservation, he also runs a training programme for farmers on animal handling.

Alexandra Pereira DVM, MRCVS
Clinic and Surgery of Small Animals
PDSA (Peoples Dispensary for Sick Animals). Brighton. UK

Degree in Veterinary Medicine (Faculty of Lisbon, Portugal).
Worked as Laboratory Animal Assistant (Medicine Faculty of Lisbon) and later for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals (Manchester, England).
Presently taking an MSc in Clinical Ethology and Animal Welfare (Madrid University) and Certificate in Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law (RCVS, London).

She tutors Portuguese and Spanish speaking groups and is the Director of CEI Portugal

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Dr Roger Abrantes MSc, PhD His website
Etologisk Institut. Denmark

PhD in ethology and evolutionary biology. Chairman of the institute council, lectures in ethology and anthropology. President of the American Society of Pet Behaviour Counselor Author of the books
Dog Language, An Encyclopedia of Canine Behavior , The Evolution of Canine Social Behavior In this course he tutors English, Portuguese and Danish speaking groups.

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Dr Sonya Hill, PhD
Director of Education and Research. Chester Zoo. UK
Tutor and course director in Environmental Enrichment

Dr Carlos Naconecy, MPhil
CEI and Pontifícia Universidade de Porto Alegre. Brazil
Tutor in Animal Ethics

BA in Philosophy at UFRGS, Brazil (Title of the essay: The present state of the discussion on moral status of non-human animals); MA in Philosophy at PUCRS, Brazil (Title of the thesis: A critic overview of contemporary environmental ethics). Doing a PhD in Philosophy at PUCRS, Brazil (Topic of the thesis: Animal ethics: a decision-making model for the conflicts between human and nonhuman interests). Author of "Ethics and Animals: a handbook to philosophical argumentation", EDIPUCRS, forthcoming.

Professor Don Broom MSc, PhD

Cambridge University was the first university in the world to appoint a Professor of Animal Welfare: Donald M. Broom, Colleen Macleod Professor of Animal Welfare at the the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine.

Over the years, Professor Broom and his Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Interactions Group have carried out extensive research, and in recent years have been in the vanguard of scientific advances which have influenced legislation and practice as well as being of fundamental interest.

In the course of their work Professor Broom and his colleagues have collected a large selection of scientific reports and references on animal welfare. This collection of animal welfare science resources led to the foundation of the Cambridge University Animal Welfare Information Centre (C.U.A.W.I.C.).

Professor Broom has chaired the Scientific Veterinary Committee, Animal Welfare Section in Brussels, has been a scientific advisor to the Council of Europe Standing Committee of the Convention on the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes in Strasbourg and has been a Member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council.