Dr. Irene Camerlink is a researcher in animal behaviour and welfare, with a focus on the social behaviour of pigs. She conducted her PhD at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and thereafter worked as postdoctoral researcher at SRUC (Edinburgh, UK) and the Vetmeduni, Vienna (Austria) before taking a position as Associate Professor (Hab.) at the Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. She is Editor-in-chief of the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, and editor of the books ‘Animal Welfare in Practice: Pigs’ and ‘Bridging Research Disciplines to Advance Animal Welfare Science’. She was awarded the ISAE New Investigator Award in 2017 and the UFAW Young Animal Welfare Scientist of the Year Award in 2020. Throughout her career she has studied pig behaviour and welfare by combining multiple disciplines such as genetics, ethology, behavioural ecology and social sciences.