My research tackles pain, and our ability to alleviate it. This is twinned with a wide interest in mammalian and non-mammalian comparative physiology, where anesthesia and pain reflief are central to our ability to ethically perform experiments, but can also have effects on our results. My work uses both in animal experiments to look holistically at the way animals function, combined with innovative imaging from the whole body to micrometre scale. This has included

i) current work exploring the acute physiology around keel bone fracture, a common condition in commerical and backyard poultry

ii) studying how to anaesthetise reptiles to best maintain their physiology for heart and eye research, and veterinary practice.

iii) an exploration of the dermal skeleton in lizards

I teach non mammalian anatomy and comparative zoology (Dyr& Væv), and mammalian physiology (AF1) in the first and second semsters of the veterinary and animal science curricula. I also contribute teaching to the animal experimentation course and teaching on evolutionary medicine for medical students.

I maintain active collaborations with researchers in Zoophysiology (AU), Clinical Medicine (AU), Chemistry (AU) and with groups at Copenhagen University, University of Guelph, covering research topics such as anaesthetising birds for in vivo physiolgy, the material properties of lizard skin, and ongoing work into keel bone fracture in hens