Emma Baxter Föreläsare

Dr
SRUC

Emma is a senior research scientist at SRUC with over 18 years of research experience in animal behaviour and welfare. She specialises in pigs with projects covering challenges throughout the pig’s life cycle from optimising piglet survival and designing high welfare farrowing systems to investigating alternatives to CO2 stunning at slaughterhouses. Of particular relevance for this meeting is her work on precision livestock farming with projects looking at automated detection of imminent tail-biting outbreaks and individual recognition and detection of affective states using facial biometrics and facial expression.