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
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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Year: 2025 - Was fühlt das Schwein? Langeweile und Flow auf der Spur (What does the pig feel? On the scent of boredom and flow) (Talk)
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 AustriaYear: 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:
Bielefeld UniversityYear: 2024 - How do pigs respond to a change of the environment as assessed by Qualitative Behaviour Assessment? (Talk)
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 (Talk)
Autoren: Hintze, S
Event: Pig Veterinary Society PVS Spring Meeting 2024
Period: 20.03.2024 - 21.03.2024 | Location: York | Organizer:
Pig Veterinary SocietyYear: 2024 - From emotion research to innovations in practice – animal welfare science and its contribution to sustainable farming (Talk)
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 Centre of Agricultural SciencesYear: 2024 - Being bored? Validating the valence of stimuli as a basis to assess boredom-like states in pigs (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
Autoren: Hintze, S
Event: Applied Ethology and Animal Welfare Seminar 2024
Period: 02.05.2024 - 02.05.2024 | Location: Bern | Organizer:
University of BernYear: 2024 - Von der Emotionsforschung bis zur Innovation in der Praxis: Tierwohlwissenschaft als Beitrag zur Nachhaltigkeit (Talk)
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 Centre of Agricultural SciencesYear: 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) (Talk)
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 Centre of Agricultural SciencesYear: 2023 - Don’t forget the animal – designing ecologically relevant behavioural tasks to assess animals’ affective states (Talk)
Autoren: Hintze, S
Event: Behaviour 2023
Period: 14.08.2023 - 20.08.2023 | Location: Bielefeld, GERMANY
Year: 2023 - Tierwohl - was ist das? (Talk)
Autoren: Hintze, S
Event: Unterrichtsstunde in Mittelschule
Period: 31.05.2023 | Location: Vienna, AUSTRIA
Year: 2023 - “Animal Welfare – An important aspect of sustainable development?!” (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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?! (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 WageningenYear: 2023 - For their own good? The unseen harms of disenhancing farmed animals (Talk)
Autoren: Hintze, S
Event: Training School of the COST Action "LIFT" 2024
Period: 28.09.2023 - 29.09.2023 | Location: Ljubljana | Organizer:
COST ActionYear: 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? (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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. (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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? (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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?! (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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? (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
Autoren: Hintze, S
Event: Webinar Applying Etholgy 2020
Period: 08.06.2020 | Location: Online
Year: 2020 - Equine quality of life and emotion (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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: 53rd Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology ISAE 2019
Period: 05.08.2019 - 09.08.2019 | Location: Bergen, Norway
Year: 2019 - Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten – was macht Lebensqualität von Tieren aus? (Talk)
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 2019
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 (Talk)
Autoren: Bučková, K; Hintze, S; Špinka, M; Andrejchová, Z; Šárová, R; Moravcsíková, Á
Event: 53rd Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology ISAE 2019
Period: 05.08.2019 - 09.08.2019 | 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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
Autoren: Hintze, S
Event: 25. Freiland-Tagung 2018
Period: 27.09.2018 | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer:
Freiland-Verband, Universität für Bodenkultur, Veterinärmedizinische Universität WienYear: 2018 - All creatures great and small: towards a cross-species judgement bias task to assess emotional valence in animals (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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 (Talk)
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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