Daniel Mota-Rojas earned a veterinarian sciences degree in 1998, a master's from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and a PhD in neurophysiology and newborn welfare from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Mexican Veterinary Academy. He is the editor of nine books, among which is Animal Welfare (with more than 110 authors from 20 countries) from the Dutch publisher Elsevier, of which he is the editor in chief. He has significant research expertise in applied animal behaviour and welfare assessment of animals. Research topics include the development of animal welfare and pain assessment on farm and laboratory animals: at parturition, at slaughter, risk assessment for animal welfare, during long transports, the role of cognitive bias in animal emotions, neurological modulation of facial expressions, pain monitoring in veterinary medicine, and thermoregulation against animal stress. He has more than 240 scientific international papers with an h index of 33 and more than 4000 citations of his work.
Fabio Napolitano achieved his Ph.D. in Animal Science at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in 1993. He was appointed as a researcher in Animal Production at the Department of Animal Production Science (University of Basilicata, Italy) in 1995. From 1998 to 2001, he taught different disciplines (cattle husbandry, non-ruminant husbandry, poultry, and rabbit farming). Since 2002, he has been teaching “Ethology and Welfare of Domestic Animals”. He was appointed Associate Professor for husbandry on 30 November 2006. He has been called an Italian expert at the COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research) Action 846 (measuring and monitoring farm animal welfare). He has been included in the list of experts in the animal welfare field and a nominated member of the scientific committee of external reviewers within the area of activity Animal Health and Welfare for the period 2009–2011 by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), where he was a member of the working group on sheep welfare in 2014. His research activity is particularly centred on the study of animal welfare, animal behaviour, and meat quality. He is the author of about 300 scientific papers (100 with impact factor).
Marcelo Ghezzi is a doctor in Veterinary Sciences and a Professor of Anatomy I and II of Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNCPBA). He conducts Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching, Doctoral thesis management, and Coordination of national and international internships. He teaches courses for students in Veterinary Medicine, General Animal Science, Beef and Dairy Bovine Production, and Food Technology in Meat Inspection and Technology. He also provides postgraduate training for those interested in obtaining credits in the Doctorate in Animal Science career. Additionally, he supervises degree theses and coordinates activities for the training of doctoral students. In terms of research, he manages national and international projects related to research on South American Camelids and Animal Welfare. He also serves as an advisor to scientific commissions on Animal Welfare of the National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (SENASA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the Argentine Sustainable Meat Table (MACS). Furthermore,he is the Secretary of the Argentine Animal Welfare Association (ASARBA) - Society of Veterinary Medicine (SOMEVE).
Ada Braghieri is an associate professor in the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences (SAFE), University of Basilicata (UNIBAS). Dr. Braghieri received a National Scientific Qualification to function as a full professor in 2018 and was an associate professor enrolled at UNIBAS in 2014. Dr. Braghieri received her PhD in “Science and technology of animal production in difficult areas” from the University of Bari, Italy (UNIBA) in 1993. Dr. Braghieri’s Research topics include sensory analyses of animal-based products; sustainable livestock production; organic farming and product quality in sheep and cattle; Grazing behaviour of native breeds. She is the author of about 250 scientific papers (106 with impact factor).
Giuseppe De Rosa obtained his PhD in Animal Production Sciences on 10/07/1989. He has been a researcher (scientific disciplinary sector AGR/19) at the Department of Agriculture of the University of Naples Federico II since 11/05/1993. He has been an associate professor (scientific disciplinary sector AGR/19) at the Department of Agriculture of the University of Naples Federico II starting from 01/10/2015. For several years, his research activity has been aimed at studying the effects of the breeding system on the welfare of animals in livestock production, for which he has acquired considerable experience in the use and analysis of physiological and immune welfare indicators, behavioural, health and production. He participated in the European Welfare Quality® project, aimed at developing a European standard for the evaluation of well-being at the company level. He was the scientific director of an Operational Unit of the project "Efficiency, Quality and Innovation in Organic Zootechnics (E.QU.I.ZOO.BIO)", financed by the Marche Region. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Reference Center for Animal Welfare. He has been an ordinary member of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) since 1990. The scientific activity of Prof. Giuseppe De Rosa is documented by over 100 works published mostly in international journals.
