Laura X. Estévez Moreno

She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Agricultural Sciences and the Natural Environment of the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR). She is an ecologist with a background in rural development, agricultural sciences, and global health.  Her research focuses on the role of agriculture in rural livelihoods, sustainable agricultural production and consumption using a farm-to-table perspective, human-animal relationships, and farm-animal welfare. She has also been a postdoctoral researcher at the Animal Production Department of the UNIZAR (2019-2021), and a predoctoral researcher at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (Mexico, 2014-2016), and at the Pontifical Javeriana University (Colombia, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009-2010). She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the use of rural landscapes and sustainable livestock farming in Colombia (Pontifical Javeriana University and Agrarian University Foundation of Colombia), where she also participated in livestock development projects in this country (Colombian Federation of Cattle Ranchers, 2008-2012).