Prof. Lynne Sneddon
Professor, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Professor Sneddon has worked for over two decades on topics that have advanced fish health and welfare and used her research to drive the agenda for the improved welfare of fishes. Fish welfare was an understudied area prior to 2002 since it was previously believed that they did not possess pain receptors (nociceptors). Sneddon identified nociceptors on the head and face of rainbow trout for the first time published in 2002. This novel discovery that fish experience pain has since fueled Sneddon’s research, and she has dedicated her career to informing the way in which fishes are treated in the laboratory and in other context. Sneddon currently leads her team at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden investigating how to improve the way we treat fishes, decapod crustaceans and cuttlefish.