Sara Hintze

Career

• 2023 - 2023 three-month research stay at the Institute of Animal Science, Wageningen University & Research
• 2022 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Livestock Sciences, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• 2020 - 2023 FWF Firnberg grant for the project "Animal boredom - identifiying symptoms and consequences"
• 2020 - 2022 Senior Scientist at the Institute of Livestock Sciences, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• 2017 - 2020 Postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Institute of Livestock Sciences, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
• 2016 Diplomate of the European College of Animal Welfare and Behavioural Medicine (Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law)
• 2013 - 2017 PhD in Animal Welfare Science, University of Bern, Switzerland. Project: Beyond words... Cognitive and behavioural approaches to assess emotions in horses. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hanno Würbel
• 2011 - 2012 MSc in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare, University of Edinburgh, UK. Project: Mounting behaviour in finishing pigs - Stable individual differences are not due to dominance or sexual development. Supervisor: Dr. Rick D'Eath
• 2005 - 2011 Studies of veterinary medicine, Giessen University, Germany

Awards

• Year: 2023 Awards: Poster prize. International Meeting of Applied Ethology, Freiburg, Germany
• Year: 2023 Awards: 'Early Career Animal Welfare Researcher of the Year Award' awarded by the Universities Federaion of Animal Welfare (UFAW)
• Year: 2018 Awards: 'Faculty prize for the best dissertation' of the Vetsuisse faculty in the academic year 2017/2018
• Year: 2017 Awards: IGN-Forschungspreis (research award awarded by the International Society of Livestock Husbandry (IGN))
• Year: 2017 Awards: Professor Dr. Walther Bolz Award (Animal welfare research award)
• Year: 2015 Awards: 'Best Student Presentation Award'. Conference of the International Society for Equitation Science, Vancouver, Canada
• Year: 2014 Awards: 'Best Student Poster Award'. Conference of the 'International Society for Equitation Science', Bredsted, Denmark
• Year: 2013 Awards: Poster prize. International Meeting of Applied Ethology, Freiburg, Germany