Department of Animal Science
Aarhus University

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Curriculum vitae – Lene Juul Pedersen, Born 1963, email lene.juulpedersen@anis.au.dk, Phone 51162822/ 87157907 (work). Current position Professor at Dep. Animal Science, Aarhus University, Denmark Education: 1988 Cand. Agro, MSC in Animal Science, The Royal Vet. and Agric.Uni. of Denmark. 1994 PhD in Animal Science, The Royal Vet. and Agri.Uni. of Denmark. Title: The influence of stress and the social environment on oestrus and mating in swine. Occupation: 1989-1990 Research assistance at Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences. 1990-1993 PhD students at The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University. 1994-1995 Maternal leave (10 month) 1995-1998 Post Doc at The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University. 1998-2001 Researcher at Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences (Maternal leave (6 month) 2001- 2018 Senior Researcher, Aarhus University, Dept. of Animal Science. 2018- Professor in Welfare and Precision Livestock Farming and Head of the research group Animal behaviour and Stress biology (until end of 2019) at Dept. Animal Science, Aarhus University Project management I have documented management qualifications and extensive experience in successful administration of cross-disciplinary research projects with both scientific and industrial partners. I have successfully attracted and managed research funding to a high extent. Scientific area of work Applied and basic research within the field of animal behaviour, welfare and stress biology for more than 25 years. The main research area has been on behavioural needs of pigs and other farm animal species in relation to the development of welfare friendly housing, environmental enrichment and management. A focus area has been on pigs need for exploratory material and its relations to development of tail biting. In addition, genetics as well as the physical and social environment have been investigated to understand the importance of such factors for amongst other sow housing and neonatal piglet mortality. Methods for automated surveillance of sow and pig behaviours have been developed for building management tool for early detection of welfare and health related problems. The research has amongst other resulted in 120 peer review publications. The knowledge gained has to a large extent been used by industry as well as Danish and EU authorities concerned with legislation on Animal welfare issues. Supervision of master students and PhD students: Supervisor for students at all academic levels from bachelors to PhD students. The students are parts of larger inter-disciplinary research projects, and through that, they gain both excellent scientific knowledge and a good understanding of the context in which behavioural and welfare research can be applied.