Dr Leonie JacobsDr Leonie Jacobs, Associate Professor in Animal welfare and behavior, School of Animal Sciences, Virginia Tech. She focuses her research and extension efforts on improving animal welfare of production animals, mostly poultry. Recent projects focus onagroforestry approaches for broiler chickens, assessing the benefits of enrichment strategies on broiler chicken welfare, and identifying novel behavioral and physiological markers for positive animal welfare and affective states in broiler strains with differing growth potential. Read More Read Less