Dr. Oriol Talló-Parra (DVM, MSc, PhD) is a researcher at the Animal Welfare Education Centre (AWEC) and the Department of Animal and Food Science within the School of Veterinary Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). His work focuses on research, teaching, and consultancy in the field of wild animal welfare, both in free-ranging populations and under human care, as well as its relationship with species conservation. In addition to his research activities, Oriol coordinates the MSc in Animal Welfare at UAB and teaches across a range of several educational programs, including master's degrees, FELASA-accredited courses, and the UAB veterinary degree program. He has also supervised several PhD dissertations, master's theses, and undergraduate research projects. Beyond academia, Oriol serves as the Animal Welfare Officer at Oceanogràfic València and works as an animal welfare consultant for various zoological institutions, European associations, and public agencies.

Dr. Eduardo J. Fernandez is the Animal Behaviour Program Director and a Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare in the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences at Adelaide University (Australia). Most of his work involves behavioral research applied to the welfare, enrichment, and training of zoo, aquarium, and companion animals. His general research focus is on animal welfare and the applied animal sciences, largely influenced by learning and evolutionary theories and perspectives. He currently runs the Exotic Enrichment and Learning (EEL) lab, which focuses on improving the lives of animals located in zoos, aquariums, and wildlife parks. Many of his past publications and presentations as well as current research can be found on his ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eduardo_Fernandez18

Dr. Mariana Panayotova-Pencheva graduated from Trakia University, Bulgaria, with a master's degree in veterinary medicine in 1995. That same year, she began working as a researcher at the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Parasitology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and obtained her PhD in veterinary medicine (specialty: Parasitology and invasive diseases of animals and humans) in 2009. She is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology, and Anthropology with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has many years of experience as a lecturer in parasitology and wildlife diseases at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Forestry, Sofia. Her research focuses on veterinary parasitology, mainly helminthology, pulmonary parasites, parasitic zoonoses, and wildlife parasitoses.