Dr. Daniel Mota-Rojas earned a veterinarian sciences degree in 1998, a masters from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and a PhD in neurophysiology and newborn welfare from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico. He is a Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Mexican Veterinary Academy. He is the editor of nine books, among which stands out Animal Welfare (with more than 110 authors from 20 countries) from the Dutch publisher Elsevier, of which he is the editor-in-chief. He has significant research expertise in applied animal behavior and welfare assessment of animals. Research topics include the development of animal welfare and pain assessment on farm and laboratory animals: at parturition, at slaughter, risk assessment for animal welfare, during long transports, the role of cognitive bias in animal emotions, neurological modulation of facial expressions, pain monitoring in veterinary medicine, and thermoregulation against animal stress. He has more than 200 scientific international papers with an h index factor of 31 and more than 3000 citations of his work (Scopus, 5 December 2023).
Ismael Hernández-Ávalos is an associate professor of clinical pharmacology and veterinary anaesthesia, National Autonomous University of Mexico. He completed his PhD studies at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Autonomous Mexico State University. He is a professor member of the review committee of the plan and program of studies of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics of the Faculty of Higher Studies Cuautitlán. His research focuses on clinical pharmacology, veterinary pharmacology, veterinary anesthesiology, pain management and treatment, etc.
