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Liesbeth Bolhuis studied Animal Science at Wageningen University where she obtained her MSc degree with honours in 1997 and later achieved her PhD in 2004, focusing on the personalities of pigs by combining ethology and physiology. She has held a part-time appointment as a teacher in the Ethology Group since 2003 and subsequently started the Adaptation Physiology Group. As the leader of the Behavioural Physiology research education group, she has co-supervised approximately 20 PhD students and more than 120 MSc thesis students. Bolhuis’s team aims to maintain a sound mixture of fundamental and applied research, with a significant focus on the impact of early life environmental conditions on behavioural development and welfare resilience in farm animals. She has coordinated several large, successful interdisciplinary research projects and has authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 4 book chapters. Her research investigates the genetic background, early life experiences, and environmental characteristics that influence behavioural and physiological processes affecting animal welfare and health. Her current projects include studies on personality traits that impact behaviour, effects of early life conditions, social interactions, and feeding strategies on welfare outcomes in farm animals.
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