Department of Biosystems - Biosystems Engineering Technology - Campus Geel
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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https://www.livestocktechnology.be

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Ben Aernouts obtained a master’s and the PhD degree in Bioscience Engineering at the KU Leuven in Belgium in respectively 2010 and 2014. During his PhD research, he studied the optical behaviour of raw milk and other food products. Later, he continued as a postdoctoral fellow and used the insights obtained in his PhD research to improve the design of optical sensors for food quality monitoring. The focus of this work was on the development and validation of on-farm and in-line sensors to monitor milk quality and cow health. To further complete his knowledge on data processing, he joined the lab of Prof. Matti Pastell at the Natural Resources Institute of Finland (Luke) as a visiting researcher from January until July 2018. Since October 2016, Ben Aernouts is an assistant professor in “Management in Livestock Production” at the Faculty of Engineering Technology, KU Leuven Campus Geel. He teaches courses on livestock production, cattle management and precision livestock farming. Besides his teaching activities, he leads a research group with 3 PhD students and 1 postdoc working on Livestock Technology and focusing on the development, implementation and validation of innovative sensor technology and data-processing algorithms to support the animal management in livestock production. The current projects of the Livestock Technology group deal with the monitoring of recovery and cure after mastitis, modelling milk yield dynamics and perturbations, modelling milk progesterone and model-based decision support, on-farm milk quality monitoring and the identification of resilient dairy cows based on sensor and milk biomarker data.