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Sara Hintze

Ass.Prof. Dr.med.vet Sara Hintze MSc. PhD.
Institute of Livestock Sciences
Location Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Wien
Email sara.hintze@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93228

ORCID: 0000-0002-8410-3239, opens in new window.

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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

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Presentations

  • Year: 2025 -  Was fühlt das Schwein? Langeweile und Flow auf der Spur (What does the pig feel? On the scent of boredom and flow) (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: BIO AUSTRIA Tage für Bäuerinnen und Bauern 2025

    Period: 28.01.2025 - 30.01.2025  | Location: Puchberg, 4600 Wels, Österreich  | Organizer: BIO AUSTRIA

  • Year: 2024 -  Of pessimistic horses, inactive cattle and bored pigs - studying emotions in animal welfare science (Lecture)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Animal Experimental Research and Animal Welfare

    Period: 10.07.2024 - 10.07.2024  | Location: Bielefeld  | Organizer: Universität Bielefeld

  • Year: 2024 -  How do pigs respond to a change of the environment as assessed by Qualitative Behaviour Assessment? (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Ferroni, G

    Event: 3rd Annual Doctoral Student Conference VDS CoBeNe PhD Academy

    Period: 31.01.2024 - 02.02.2024  | Location: Vienna, Austria  | Organizer: Universität Wien

  • Year: 2024 -  Burdensome boredom? Studying the emotional consequence of chronic boredom in farmed pigs (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Pig Veterinary Society PVS Spring Meeting 2024

    Period: 20.03.2024 - 21.03.2024  | Location: York  | Organizer: Pig Veterinary Society

  • Year: 2024 -  From emotion research to innovations in practice – animal welfare science and its contribution to sustainable farming (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: 14. CAS-Herbsttagung 2024: Zukunftsfähige Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme 2024 - Beitrag der Nutztierwissenschaften

    Period: 06.12.2024  | Location: Wien | Location: Peter-Jordan-Straße, 1190 Wien, Österreich  | Organizer: BOKU Zentrum für Agrarwissenschaften

  • Year: 2024 -  Being bored? Validating the valence of stimuli as a basis to assess boredom-like states in pigs (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Heigl, H; Winckler, C

    Event: 9th International Conference on the Welfare Assessment of Animals at Farm Level 2024

    Period: 30.08.2024 - 31.08.2024  | Location: Florence, Italy  | Organizer: European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP)

  • Year: 2024 -  Ruffled minds? Time budgets and restlessness in bulls kept in different housing systems (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Winckler, C; Wildemann, T; Hintze, S

    Event: 9th International Conference on the Welfare Assessment of Animals at Farm Level 2024

    Period: 30.08.2024 - 31.08.2024  | Location: Florence, Italy  | Organizer: European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP)

  • Year: 2024 -  Bored as hell or flourishing in flow? Attempts to study the antidotes of boredom and flow in non-human animals (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Applied Ethology and Animal Welfare Seminar 2024

    Period: 02.05.2024 - 02.05.2024  | Location: Bern  | Organizer: Universität Bern

  • Year: 2024 -  Von der Emotionsforschung bis zur Innovation in der Praxis: Tierwohlwissenschaft als Beitrag zur Nachhaltigkeit (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: 14. CAS-Herbsttagung 2024: Zukunftsfähige Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme 2024 - Beitrag der Nutztierwissenschaften

    Period: 06.12.2024  | Location: Wien | Location: Peter-Jordan-Straße, 1190 Wien, Österreich  | Organizer: BOKU Zentrum für Agrarwissenschaften

  • Year: 2024 -  Von der Emotionsforschung bis zur Innovation in der Praxis: Tierwohlwissenschaft als Beitrag zur Nachhaltigkeit (From emotion research to innovations in practice – animal welfare science and its contribution to sustainable farming) (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: 14. CAS-Herbsttagung 2024: Zukunftsfähige Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme 2024 - Beitrag der Nutztierwissenschaften

    Period: 06.12.2024  | Location: Wien | Location: Peter-Jordan-Straße, 1190 Wien, Österreich  | Organizer: BOKU Zentrum für Agrarwissenschaften

  • Year: 2023 -  Don’t forget the animal – designing ecologically relevant behavioural tasks to assess animals’ affective states (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Behaviour 2023

    Period: 14.08.2023 - 20.08.2023  | Location: Bielefeld, GERMANY

  • Year: 2023 -  Tierwohl - was ist das? (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Unterrichtsstunde in Mittelschule

    Period: 31.05.2023  | Location: Vienna, AUSTRIA

  • Year: 2023 -  “Animal Welfare – An important aspect of sustainable development?!” (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Lectures for Future

    Period: 07.11.2023  | Location: VIENNA, Austria

  • Year: 2023 -  Being bored? Identifying the emotional consequences of boredom-like states in pigs (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: UFAW Online Animal Welfare Conference

    Period: 20.06.2023 - 21.06.2023  | Location: online

  • Year: 2023 -  Boredom in the beast - the emotional consequences of chronic boredom in pigs (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Defra Research Seminar

    Period: 05.10.2023  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2023 -  Of worried horses, optimistic calves and bored pigs - studying animal emotions across species (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Institute of Animal Sciences' Lunch Lecture

    Period: 05.09.2023  | Location: Wageningen University

  • Year: 2023 -  If only they could talk... Studying emotion in animal welfare research (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Four Paws: First Science Talk

    Period: 13.03.2023  | Location: Vienna, Austria

  • Year: 2023 -  Don't worry, be happy. Ein positives Leben auch für Tiere?! (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: 30. Freiland-Tagung 2023

    Period: 21.09.2023  | Location: Vienna

  • Year: 2023 -  Asking the right questions right: Potentials and challenges of behaviour tests in animal welfare research (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Webinar "Applying Ethology"

    Period: 20.03.2023  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2023 -  Assessing the behavioural consequences of chronic boredom in pigs: from a quantitative to qualitative perspective (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Ferroni, G

    Event: Research seminar at the Adaptation Physiology Group of Wageningen University and Research

    Period: 13.10.2023 - 13.10.2023  | Location: Wageningen, Netherland  | Organizer: University of Wageningen

  • Year: 2023 -  For their own good? The unseen harms of disenhancing farmed animals (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Training School of the COST Action "LIFT" 2024

    Period: 28.09.2023 - 29.09.2023  | Location: Ljubljana  | Organizer: COST Action

  • Year: 2023 -  Ruffled minds? Characterising restlessness in bulls kept in fully slatted floors (Poster)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Krottenthaler, F; Winckler, C

    Event: UFAW Online Animal Welfare Conference

    Period: 20.06.2023 - 21.06.2023  | Location: online

  • Year: 2023 -  Can indicator of pig boredom be detected by changes in pigs’ time perception? (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Kull, K; Bauer, M. F; Chorherr, V; Winckler, C; Hintze, S

    Event: 55th International Conference on Applied Ethology 2023

    Period: 30.11.2023 - 02.12.2023  | Location: Freiburg, Deutschland

  • Year: 2023 -  Ruffled minds? Charakterisierung des Unruheverhaltens von Bullen in Vollspaltenbodenhaltung (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Krottenthaler, F; Winckler, C

    Event: 55. Internationale Tagung Angewandte Ethologie

    Period: 29.11.2023 - 02.12.2023  | Location: Freiburg im Breisgau

  • Year: 2023 -  Feeling the flow – towards the study of flourishing and thriving in non-human animals. (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Yee, J

    Event: Behaviour 2023

    Period: 14.08.2023 - 20.08.2023  | Location: Bielefeld, GERMANY

  • Year: 2022 -  Being bored? Assessing the emotional consequences of boredom-like states in pigs (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Symposium on pig welfare research

    Period: 21.10.2022  | Location: Magdalenka, POLAND

  • Year: 2022 -  Bored as hell. Tracking symptoms of boredom-like states in pigs (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Workshop ‘Animal Welfare and Animal Ethics’

    Period: 27.06.2022 - 28.06.2022  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2022 -  Von Kühen, Schweinen und Hühnern und was sie mit dem Klima zu tun haben (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Protestant Church Austria and Scientists for Future

    Period: 14.03.2022  | Location: Online, Unknown

  • Year: 2022 -  Time perception of domestic pigs: what makes pigs’ time fly? (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Kull, K; Winckler, Christoph; Hintze, S

    Event: Virtual Conference of the Ethologische Gesellschaft

    Period: 25.02.2022  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2022 -  Arousal tends to distort time perception of domestic pigs (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Kull, K; Winckler, C; Hintze, S

    Event: Nordic network for Communicating Animal Welfare

    Period: 30.11.2022 - 01.12.2022  | Location: Tartu, Estonia

  • Year: 2022 -  Towards the study of boredom in pigs - developing a task to assess pigs' time perception (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Kull, K; Winckler, C; Hintze, S

    Event: Advancing Animal Welfare Science - UFAW International Conference

    Period: 28.06.2022 - 29.06.2022  | Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

  • Year: 2021 -  The art of (describing) doing nothing: Inactivity in fattening cattle (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Maulbetsch, F; Asher, L: Winckler, C

    Event: Annual Meeting of the European Veterinary Congress of Behavioural Medicine and Animal Welfare

    Period: 07.10.2021 - 09.10.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Animal Welfare – An important aspect of sustainable development?! (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Lectures for Future

    Period: 12.01.2021  | Location: VIENNA, Austria

  • Year: 2021 -  Inactivity in fattening cattle: The art of (describing) doing nothing (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Workshop ‘What do specific forms of inactivity tell us about non-human animal affective (welfare) states?’

    Period: 11.03.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Let it flow – balancing skill and challenge for positive welfare (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Yee, J

    Event: Annual Meeting of the Animal Welfare Research Network

    Period: 15.07.2021 - 16.07.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Going with the flow – balancing skill and challenge for positive welfare (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze,S; Yee, J

    Event: 54th International Congress of the ISAE 2021

    Period: 02.08.2021 - 06.08.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  For their own good? The unseen harms of disenhancing farmed animals (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Monsó, S

    Event: Webinar Applying Etholgy 2021

    Period: 05.07.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Of optimistic calves, worried horses and bored pigs – cognitive and behavioural approaches to assess emotions across species (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Seminar session, Center for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University

    Period: 02.11.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Of optimistic calves, worried horses and bored pigs – cognitive and behavioural approached to assess emotions across species (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Czech and Slovak Ethology Conference

    Period: 05.11.2021 - 06.11.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Inner- und zwischenartliche Verhaltensinteraktionen bei gemeinsamer Weidehaltung von Jungrindern und Masthühnern (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Schanz, L; Hintze, S; Hübner, S; Barth, K; Winckler, C

    Event: 53. Internationale Tagung Angewandte Ethologie bei Nutztieren

    Period: 25.11.2021 - 26.11.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Cattle or no cattle? Presence of cattleon pasture does not affect fearfulness in broiler chickens (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Schanz, L; Hintze, S; Hübner, S; Barth, K; Winckler, C

    Event: International Student Symposium Animal Behavior & Cognition

    Period: 17.05.2021 - 20.05.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  The effects of training for behavioural tests on chicken welfare (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Neuhauser, J; Hintze, S; Secker, L; Kanwischer, H; Rault, J-L; Sirovnik, J

    Event: 54th International Congress of the ISAE 2021

    Period: 02.08.2021 - 06.08.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Can pigs remember a cognitive task after six weeks? (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Kull, K; Winckler, C; Hintze, S

    Event: ISAE East-West joint regional conference

    Period: 23.09.2021 - 24.09.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Can pigs tell the time? Developing a task to study pigs’ time perception (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Kull, K; Winckler, C; Hintze, S

    Event: Internationale Tagung Angewandte Ethologie 2021

    Period: 25.11.2021 - 26.11.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Intra- and interspecific behavioural interactions of co-grazing young cattle and broiler chickens (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Schanz, L; Hintze, S; Hübner, S; Barth, K; Winckler, C

    Event: Internationale Tagung Angewandte Ethologie 2021

    Period: 25.11.2021 - 26.11.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Single or mixed: Comparing behaviour of single- and multi-species groups of young cattle and broiler chickens on pasture (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Schanz, L; Hintze, S; Hübner, S; Barth, K; Winckler, C

    Event: 54th International Congress of the ISAE 2021

    Period: 02.08.2021 - 06.08.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2021 -  Tickled pink? The effect of long- and short-term positive human contact on pigs’ judgement bias (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Creagh, K; Rault, J-L; Hintze, S

    Event: UFAW Animal Welfare Conference

    Period: 29.06.2021 - 30.06.2021  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2020 -  Doing nothing and what it looks like… Inactivity in fattening cattle (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Webinar Applying Etholgy 2020

    Period: 08.06.2020  | Location: Online

  • Year: 2020 -  Equine quality of life and emotion (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Workshop on equine quality of life

    Period: 13.10.2020  | Location: Vienna, Austria

  • Year: 2019 -  Inside out? Qualitative Behaviour Assessment in animal welfare science (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Workshop ‘Measuring animal behaviour –methods for coding facial and body expressions’

    Period: 10.10.2019 - 11.10.2019  | Location: Bern, Switzerland

  • Year: 2019 -  What do they feel? The study of emotion in animal welfare research (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Workshop "Animal welfare – ethical, epistemological and biological perspectives"

    Period: 25.03.2019 - 29.03.2019  | Location: Münster, Germany

  • Year: 2019 -  What do they feel? The study of emotions in animal welfare science (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Lecture series "Human-Animal Relationship"

    Period: 30.04.2019  | Location: Vienna, Austria

  • Year: 2019 -  Eye wrinkle expression in horses – influence of individual characteristics? (Poster)

    Autoren: Schanz, L; Krüger, K; Hintze, S

    Event: International Meeting of Applied Ethology

    Period: 28.11.2019 - 29.11.2019  | Location: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

  • Year: 2019 -  Doing nothing – inactivity in fattening cattle (Poster)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Maulbetsch, F; Asher, L; Winckler, C

    Event: International Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology

    Period: 04.08.2019 - 08.08.2019  | Location: Bergen, Norway

  • Year: 2019 -  Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten – was macht Lebensqualität von Tieren aus? (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Winckler, C

    Event: Tagung der ÖTT (Österreichische Tierärztinnen und Tierärzte für Tierschutz)

    Period: 02.05.2019  | Location: Vienna, Austria

  • Year: 2019 -  Do individual characteristics like age, gender, breed type or coat colour influence eye wrinkle expression in horses? (Poster)

    Autoren: Schanz, L.; Krueger, K.; Hintze, S.

    Event: 51. Internationale Tagung der Angewandten Ethologie

    Period: 28.11.2019 - 30.11.2019  | Location: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

  • Year: 2019 -  Half full or half empty – comparing affective states of dairy calves (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Bučková, K; Hintze, S; Špinka, M; Andrejchová, Z; Šárová, R; Moravcsíková, Á

    Event: International Congress of the ISAE 2019

    Period: 04.08.2019 - 08.08.2019  | Location: Bergen, Norway

  • Year: 2018 -  Eye wrinkle expression in horses – possible influencing factors (Poster)

    Autoren: Schanz, L; Krüger, K; Hintze, S.

    Event: 5th European Student Conference on Behaviour & Cognition 2018

    Period: 06.09.2018 - 07.09.2018  | Location: Vienna, Austria

  • Year: 2018 -  Fühlende Pferde – Zugänge zu Emotionen bei Tieren (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: Tagung der Österreichische Tierärztinnen und Tierärzte für Tierschutz ÖTT 2018

    Period: 03.05.2018  | Location: Vienna, Austria

  • Year: 2018 -  Tier mit Gefühl?! Emotionen in der Tierwohlforschung (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: 25. Freiland-Tagung 2018

    Period: 27.09.2018  | Location: Vienna, Austria  | Organizer: Freiland-Verband, Universität für Bodenkultur, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien

  • Year: 2018 -  All creatures great and small: towards a cross-species judgement bias task to assess emotional valence in animals (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Melotti, L; Colosio, S; Bailoo, JD; Boada-Sana, M; Würbel, H; Murphy, E

    Event: ASAB Winter Meeting

    Period: 06.12.2018 - 07.12.2018  | Location: London, UK

  • Year: 2018 -  Effect of housing and age at pairing in calves‘ performance in a simple cognitive task (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Bučková, K; Špinka, M; Hintze, S; Kozáková, Z

    Event: 5th European Student Conference on Behaviour & Cognition 2018

    Period: 06.09.2018 - 07.09.2018  | Location: Vienna, Austria

  • Year: 2017 -  Measuring optimistic and pessimistic biases across species: Towards a universal task design (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Melotti, L; Colosio, S; Bailoo, JD; Boada-Sana, M; Würbel, H; Murphy, E

    Event: Behaviour 2017, joint meeting of the 35th International Ethological Conference (IEC) & the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) summer meeting

    Period: 30.07.2017 - 04.08.2017  | Location: Estoril, Portugal

  • Year: 2017 -  Beurteilung des Wohlergehens von Pferden – ein Überblick (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S

    Event: IGN-Tagung "Nutzung und Umgang mit Pferden in Sport und Freizeit"

    Period: 29.06.2017 - 30.06.2017  | Location: Avenches, Switzerland

  • Year: 2017 -  Qualitative Behaviour Assessment of emotionality in horses (Vortrag)

    Autoren: Hintze, S; Murphy, E; Bachmann, I; Wemelsfelder, F; Würbel, H

    Event: International Veterinary Behaviour Meeting, Animal Welfare Section

    Period: 14.09.2017 - 16.09.2017  | Location: Samorin, Slovak Republic

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