Lynne Sneddon, PhD profile page

Professor Sneddon has worked for over two decades on topics that have advanced fish health and welfare, using her research to drive the agenda for the improved welfare of fish. Fish welfare was an understudied area prior to 2002, since it was previously believed that fish did not possess pain receptors (nociceptors). Sneddon identified nociceptors on the head and face of rainbow trout for the first time in a study that was published in 2002. This novel discovery that fish experience pain has since fuelled Sneddon’s research, and she has dedicated her career to informing the way in which fishes are treated in the laboratory and in other contexts. Sneddon has become the recognized world expert on fish welfare and was invited to develop training resources, participate in workshops, and deliver educational events and talks to veterinarians as well as technical care staff and academics. She is also regularly invited to give talks at academic conferences, laboratory animal meetings, animal law conferences, public events and to industry and other stakeholders. Sneddon currently leads her team at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden investigating how to improve the ways that we treat fish, decapod crustaceans and cuttlefish.