Emma Fàbrega

Dr. Emma Fàbrega i Romans holds a degree in veterinary medicine (1995) and a PhD in animal production (2002) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She also completed a Master's degree in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare (1998) from the University of Edinburgh and is a Diplomate of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine in the subspecialty of Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law. Since 2003, she has worked at IRTA, in the Animal Welfare program, conducting research on systems for assessing animal welfare on farms, especially in pigs, and improvement strategies. She has coordinated national projects on alternatives to painful practices such as castration or tail docking in pigs, and in European projects on the application of precision technologies to improve welfare or the development of new indicators to assess welfare, and the relationship between animal welfare and sustainability. She has published more than 60 articles in indexed journals and has also participated in book chapters and publications in popular journals. She has participated as a speaker since 2003 in training conferences for livestock farmers, veterinarians, or other agents in the sector, both nationally and internationally, as well as in more than 100 presentations at conferences. She has organized and participated in numerous technology transfer conferences for the sector.