New SOLID colleague

Konstantinos Zaralis has joined the Organic Research Center, UK’s research team as a Senior Livestock Researcher and he is responsible for ORC’s involvement in the SOLID project.

Kostas’ research interests focus on interactions between genotype and nutrition on animal
productivity and health, on mechanisms that underlie the regulation of metabolism, nutrient partitioning and food intake in farm animals, as well as nutritional and environmental factors that affect the ability of animals to cope with disease.
He has a Ph.D. in animal health by nutrition interactions from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh and an MSc. in Animal Production and Nutrition from the University of Aberdeen. He undertook postdoctoral research at the Scottish Agricultural College on modelling breed/genotypic differences of farm animals in
production efficiency. Over the last four years he has carried out research at the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences on the effects of maturity stage at harvest and dietary inclusion rate of whole-crop maize silage on feed intake, eating behaviour and performance of finishing dairy bulls and ram lambs. Kostas is involved in the OptGraze (Optimal Grazing Strategy for Dairy Cows) project in collaboration with Bioforsk in Norway, as well as in the Core Organic funded project on The Improved Contribution of local feed to support 100% Organic feed supply to Pigs and Poultry (ICOPP). He is member of the Nutrition Society
(NS), the British Society of Animal Science (BSAS), the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists (NJF) and the Hellenic Society of Animal Production (HSAP).