PhD in Animal Behaviour& Welfare, and professor of Animal Husbandry, Behaviour& Welfare.

Uta König von Borstel, (BSc, MSc, PhD in agricultural and animal science) is Professor at the University of Gießen, Germany. Her research focuses on livestock – and in particular equine – welfare and cognition, in relation to human-animal interactions. She also has a strong interest in enhancing and refining husbandry technology for improvement of animal welfare, she has co-authored the national guidelines for equine welfare in relation to training, and she is council member of several associations such as the International Society for Equitation Science (ISES) that focus on knowledge transfer in equine science.  She is also the leader of Work Package 4.