Dr. Maria Cabrera
Researcher, Center of Marine Sciences (Portugal), Fish Behaviour and Welfare Research Team.
María is a biologist with a speciality in fish behaviour and neuroscience. She did a MSc in Animal Behaviour and Neuroscience at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), a PhD in Fish Social Behaviour and Neuroscience at McGill University (Canada), and worked at a Comparative Cognition laboratory at the University of Cambridge (UK). María is interested in the underlying mechanisms of animal cognition and social behaviour and in how we can use this information to improve the life and welfare of farmed fishes. Her latest work involves the use of heart rate biologgers to explore the effects of environmental enrichment and stunning and slaughter methods on fish welfare.