via Appreciative Cage-Free Insights, we specialize in providing expert consultancy and actionable insights on cage-free laying hen husbandry. Our mission is to support and guide poultry farmers, producers, and industry stakeholders in adopting and optimizing cage-free systems. We focus on welfare matters, best practices, and smooth transitions using a collaborative and appreciative approach.

Council on Animal Affairs - an independent Dutch council of experts that gives the Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality solicited and unsolicited advice on multidisciplinary issues in the field of animal welfare and health.

Layerhouse project:"Research on improving aviary housing systems in conventional laying hen farms"CORE Ogranic II - HealthyHens project:“Investigating health and welfare in European organic laying hens"

Daily management of biotechnical research facility and performing biotechnical techniques in multiple species

- Netherlands Vaccine Institute: animal welfare in ferrets (2010; 7 months)- Utrecht University, Faculty Veterinary Medicine: feather pecking behaviour and neuro-endocrinology in laying hens (2009-2010; 6 months)- Bristol University, UK: Stress, Serotonin and Neuroscience in rats (2005-2006; 12 months)- UMC Utrecht: Nephrology in rats (2005; 6 months)- ID-Lelystad (CVI/ASG) Vaccine Development FMDV (2001-2002; 9 months)