Maria F Jorquera-Chavez
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Biography
Maria Jorquera- Chavez has expertise in assessing behavioural and physiological responses to stress in animals and on the impact that stress has on the productive performance of dairy and beef cattle. She has become passionate in developing and improving methods to assess and ameliorate stress levels in animals. Her studies are addressed to generate new pathways to assist in improving animal welfare and animal production. She has been involved in the development of these technologies during her studies at The University of Melbourne. These projects are based on several studies related to human emotions when they face different situations. These studies have shown that Biometric technology is a useful tool to identify changes in physiological parameter when people is exposed to different situations. After observing these good results in humans, Maria decided to develop Biometric technologies to be used in research related to animal stress.