Special Session 5

SPECIAL SESSION #5

Maria Grazia Cappai

Dept. of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sardinia Italy

• mgcappai@uniss.it

The session welcomes contributions on all topics related to the research application to field conditions of precision livestock farming. Special focus of contributions should account for tools, technologies and implementation of systems to monitor, retrieve and collect field and animal data in an automatic and contactless fashion. Specifically, experimental applications should head to support animal health and welfare monitoring, farm management and sustainability, and flow of informative data to stakeholders and operators of specific phases of the production chain.

Maria Grazia Cappai, graduated in 2000 (summa cum laude) in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Sassari and won the position with grant from the University of Sassari as Ph D candidate (2000-2003) in the Doctoral School in Production, Hygiene and Quality of food of animal origin, with focus on primary production in dairy ewes farming system (final defence in 2004, with excellent mark). In 2005-2006,won the grant of the Autonomous region of Sardinia for merits of academic study to attend the master course of the University Bocconi of Milan, as Operation Specialist of the supply chain, with focus on RFID technology across animal productions for individual animal electronic identification and generation of first digital farm records. In 2005, won the selection at the University of Sassari as academic researcher in Animal Nutrition and Feeding. In 2007, attended the high training courses in “Animal Welfare” and “Meat traceability” both at the Mediterranean Institute IAMZ- CIHEAM of Zaragoza. She holds national and international scientific cooperation with Italian universities (Torino, Perugia, Pisa) and other research centres (National Research Council, Regional Agencies for research and development in agriculture) and international Universities (Hannover, Zurich, Oxford). Since 2007 belongs to the board of the Doctoral School in Veterinary Sciences of the University of Sassari. In 2011, she won the international Helmut Meyer award from the European Society of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition. In 2013 she won the prize from the Associated Italian Scientific Societies in Agriculture. In 2016, She was acknowledged with the national habilitation as Associated Professor of Animal Production Sciences (General husbandry and animal genetics, Animal Nutrition and Feeding, Farming Systems and animal welfare, Aquaculture, Poultry and rabbit production). Since 2019, Ishe is Associated Professor of Animal Nutrition and Feeding at the University of Sassari. In the three years 2018-2021 she completed the European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition of the EBVS, and currently eligible as European Diplomat (part of final exam succeeded). In 2021, I got the national habilitation as Full Professor of Animal Production Sciences.