Flaviana Gottardo

flaviana.gottardo@unipd.it

Telefono

0498272620

Luogo

Dipartimento di Medicina Animale, Produzioni e Salute - MAPS
VIALE DELL'UNIVERSITA', 16 - LEGNARO PD

Profilo

Flaviana Gottardo was born in Dolo (Venice) on April 13th 1965, graduated in Agricultural Science in 1992, obtained the PhD in Animal Science in 1996. The training and education have been mainly addressed to the evaluation both of welfare of farm animals and of quality of food of animal origin. During the Ph.D. in Animal Science she has completed a period of research and study in the United Kingdom at the Department of Clinical Veterinary, University of Cambridge, within the research group “Animal Welfare and Human Animal Interactions Group”, coordinated by Professor Donald Broom. In November 1999 she became aresearcher at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in the scientific-field “Animal Husbandry”. Since 2006 she has been an associate professor in the same faculty and in the same scientific field. The teaching and research activities have always focused on welfare of farm animals (particularly beef cattle, dairy cows, veal calf and pigs) together with conservation of biodiversity within the livestock sector and development of environmentally friendly rearing techniques. As an expert on these topics she has also an active teaching activity for veterinarian continuing education and for the update of farmers and technicians of the livestock sector. The research activity is documented by over 150 publications in national and international journals, 77 of them belonging to the scopus database (h-index=18; Total citation=859). She is a peer reviewer for important scientific journals of the sector such as Jounal of Animal Science, Animal, Research in Veterinary Science, Livestock Science. She is also a sector editor for the Italian Journal of Animal Science. She has been the coordinator of research units in several projects funded by the University or other institutions such as Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie, Veneto Agricoltura, Farmers Federation of Trento (see Aree di ricerca). She took part in several European projects as a member of the team of the University of Padova (see Aree di Ricerca). She is currently involved in several Italian and European projects: LOWEMEAT, on the development of a low-emission rearing system for cattle, GenTORE Genomic Management Tools to Optimise Resilience and Efficiency across the Bovine Sector, as part of the research team of the University of Padova, and SusCatt Increasing productivity, resource efficiency and product quality to increase the economic competitiveness of forage and grazing based cattle production systems, as work package coordinator. The research topics that have occupied more recently have included: 1. Feeding plans and welfare of veal calves; 2. Development of systems for assessing welfare at the farm level for calves, beef cattle and dairy cows; 3. Animal welfare issue in relation to the practice of dehorning in cattle; Flaviana Gottardo is a member of the Italian Scientific Association of Animal Production (ASPA)Teaching activity: it is developed within the scientific-field “Animal Husbandry” during the Master’s Degree in Veterinary Medicine.

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