Department of Animal Science
Aarhus University

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webpage: http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/lene-munksgaard(520c323f-66f6-4db8-a49e-df802e406bb3).html email: lene.munksgaard@anis.au.dk Curriculum vitae PERSONAL DETAILS Name: Lene Munksgaard Born: March 1957 Address: Amstrupvej 5, 8860 Ulstrup, Denmark Marital status: Married, two children born in 1985 and 1987 EDUCATIONAL RECORD 1982 Cand. Agro at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark. 1995 Ph.D. at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark. POSITIONS 1982 - 1984 Farm adviser - cattle nutrition and management. 1984 - 1989 Research Assistant, Dept. of Cattle and Sheep 1989 - 1992 Ph.D-student. 1992 - 1995 Research Assistant, Dept. of Cattle and Sheep 1995 - 1996 Research Assistant, Dept. of Animal Health and Welfare, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences 1996 - 2005 Senior Research Scientist, Dept. Animal Health and Welfare, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences. 2005 - 2007 Senior Research Scientist, Dept. Animal Health and Welfare, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences. 2007 - 2009 Senior Research Scientist, Dept. Animal Health, Welfare and Nutrition, AU 2009 - Head of Research Unit, Dept. Animal Science (pre: Animal Health, Welfare and Nutrition), AU 2013- Professor in Ethology and Animal welfare, Aarhus University PRESENT RESEARCH INTEREST Development of behavioural and physiological measures of stress in production animals and the effects on production and welfare. Development of automatic methods for recording of coping capacities and welfare. Present focus is on time budgets and lameness in dairy cows in relation to level of production and housing conditions. Studies of behaviour in relation to different aspects of housing systems for dairy cattle. Furthermore, emphasis is on the development and application of methods for quantification of behavioural needs and research into how various social and physical factors affect the behaviour of farm animals. Experience with research conducted on both research facilities and on commercial farms. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION Papers in peer reviewed journals together with scientists from Canada, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Scotland, The Nederland and USA. Participated in three EU-project the last 10 years (Automatic milking, Welfare Quality and Optiscore). Personal invitation and accepted after review procedure as member of a working group under EFSA (2007-2009). Longer visits during the last 5 years: Agriculture Canada, Agassiz, Canada (3 weeks 2007), IceRobotics, Scotland (2 month 2007, 2 month 2010). Supervisor and co-supervisor for phd-students from Finland, Sweden and Scotland. WORKING GROUPS AND COMMITTEES (LAST 8 YEARS) • Head of the Danish Animal Welfare Council under the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (2010 – ongoing) • Member of the management committee for the Cost Action: DairyCare (2014-ongoing) • Member of Dacopa (Danish Consensus Platform for 3R Alternatives to Animal Experimentation) under the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (2011 – 2013) • Working group on Welfare aspects related to breeding of animals under the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (2011- 2012). • Working group regarding Educational requirements for commercial livestock owners. Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (2011-2012) • Head of the Danish Animal Welfare Council under the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (2010 – ongoing) • Member of the steering committee of the Marie Curie Tech Trans project: Optiscore (2007-2010) • Member of Nova University Network on Animal Welfare (PhD research training network) (2010-ongoing) • Member of working group on dairy cow welfare under the Animal Health and Welfare Panel European Food Safety Authority (2007-2009). • Member of the Management Committee of COST Action 846 Measurering and monitoring animal welfare. (2000-2005) • Member of working group on welfare of cattle under The Ethical Committee for Animal welfare (Denmark) (Det Dyreetiske Råd) (2003) INVITED TALKS INTERNATIONALLY (LAST 6 YEARS) • Biology and hardware- do that increase welfare. Invited talk at conference: Danish cattle: Powered by science. Aarhus University, May 2014. • The working day of a dairy cow. Invited talk at Cow longevity conference at Tumba, DeLaval, Sweden. 28-29/8, 2013. • Behavioural needs in farms animals. Invited talk at Animal welfare: Ethical and Behavioural Questions , Aarhus University, Center for Bio Ethics and Nano Ethics the 14th - 16th of May 2012 • Automated activity monitoring as a management tool in dairy production. Plenary talk at the 62nd Annual meeting of The European Federation of Animal Science, Norway 2011. • Animal behaviour in relation to breeding. Invited talk at seminar at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 2009. Talks in Danish • Ædeadfærd og hvileadfærd i relation til produktionssygdomme. Kvægkongres. Herning, Denmark, February 2012 • Effekt af opstaldning i skånehold efter kælvning. Kvægkongres. Herning, Denmark, February 2012 • Kan velfærd måles automatisk? Åbnings konference Videnscenter for Dyrevelfærd. Copenhagen, Denmark , November 2010 MAIN GRANTS RECEIVED LAST YEARS • EVOP – Evolutionary management in large dairy herds (2014-2017) MAF. • Individual feeding strategies in dairy cows (2014-2017). MAF. • Cowtrack. (2013-2017). GUDP • Optimizing welfare and production for the cow and the calf during the transition period. Project leader. (2010-2013). The Law of Innovation. • Lameness in dairy cows, Project leader (2007-2009). The Law of Innovation • Welfare of dairy cows, Project leader (2007-2009). Danish Cattle Federation • Optiscore, Marie Curie Tech Trans project. Participant and member of the steering commitee. (2007-2010).. • Automatic monitoring of health and welfare of dairy cows in loose housing systems. Project leader at Department level. (2006-2009). The Danish Natl Advanced Technology Foundation • Genetics solutions to welfare problems Project leader (Danish part of the project) (2004-2007). Work package under the EU-project Welfare Quality (total budget Danish work package1.09 mill. Dkr). • Dairy cows in loose housing systems – increased health and welfare by use of automatically registration of behavioural indicators. Project leader (2005-2006). The Law of Innovation REVIEWER Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica; Applied Animal Behaviour Science; Computers and Electronics; J. Dairy Science; Livestock Production. TEACHING and SUPERVISION Teaching at the two present courses in ethology related to Agrobiology at AU: the course for bachelor student in Basic ethology and the course at master level in Applied Ethology, and Course responsible at Modul1 (15 ECTS) on the master: Master i Vurdering af dyrevelfærd i husdyrproduktionen. . Teaching at phd-courses at University of Helsinki (Assessment of animal welfare), and at Swedish University of Agriculture (Social behaviour in farm animals). PhD-student: Julie C. S. Henriksen, Aarhus University. Strategies for feeding concentrate to dairy cows. 2014 – ongoing, main supervisor. Rikke Munk, Aarhus University. Fysisk træning af konkurrenceheste: betydning for hesten præstationsevne og mentale status. 2011 - On-going main-supervisor Peter Raundal, KU-Life. Smerte hos køer: klovlidelsers velfærdsmæssige betydning.Co-supervisor. 2011-2014.Thesis submitte. Magnus Campler, Aarhus University, Responses of dairy cows to different environments during the transition period. 2013. Main- supervisor Norring, M., University of Helsinki, Finland. Factors affecting the use of cubicles of cows and the quality of sleep. 2010. Main-supervisor Wredle, E. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. Automatic milking and grazing: factors and stimuli affecting cow motivation to visit the milking unit. 2005. Co-supervisor. Herskin, M. S. The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark. Responses of dairy cattle toward acute stress and novelty – behaviour, physiology and nociception. 2004. Co-supervisor Chaplin, S. Scottish Agricultural College, Scotland, Co-supervisor. Resting behaviour of dairy cows. Applications to farm assurance and welfare. 2003. Co-supervisor