Head of Department of Animal Science, Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen, will continue for another term as head of department.

The head of the department is an experienced researcher and manager. The 61-year-old Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen has been in charge of the Department of Animal Science since it was formed in 2011. Before that he was head of the Department of Animal Health and Bioscience, a post he had held since 2007.

In his research career Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen has secured or helped to secure more than 150 million DKK for research, which has primarily been for projects focusing on how production diseases are influenced by nutrition, management, genotype and animal monitoring and on the prevention of such diseases.

Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen completed his agronomy studies in 1983 and acquired his PhD in 1992 from the then Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University. In 1993 he became a senior scientist, and in 1998 was appointed section manager. In 2005 he was appointed deputy head of the then Department of Animal Health, Welfare and Nutrition, which since changed its name to the Department of Animal Health and Bioscience.

Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen has an extensive publication list comprising 370 titles, including 93 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

- I am happy to continue in the post as head of Animal Science. It is an exciting job, although there are of course constantly challenges both in the department, in the tasks related to faculty management and in relation to external partners. The appointment allows me not only to oversee the modernisation of the Department’s laboratories via UNIlab funds, but also the work with a new strategy, etc., which was started already last year in the departmental management group. I expect that the combined effort of the management team and the staff will ensure that we can utilize to the full the opportunities presented to us in research, teaching, policy support and collaboration with commercial partners,” says Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen.

The Department of Animal Science conducts basic, strategic and applied research in animal nutrition, health and welfare. Areas to which this can be applied are livestock production, hobby farm animals and welfare issues. The department has about 210 staff with an equal distribution between academic staff and administrative and technical staff.

For further information please contact: Head of Department Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen, Department of Animal Science, email: kli@anis.au.dk, telephone: +45 8715 7757, mobile: +45 2963 0094