Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns

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Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns (born August 24, 1957 in Amberg ) is a German veterinarian and professor at the University of Leipzig .

Career

Krautwald-Junghanns studied veterinary medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen from 1977 to 1982 and was qualified as a veterinarian for poultry in 1988. She completed her habilitation in 1995 and was appointed private lecturer at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1996. In 1999 she moved to Leipzig and took over the professorship for bird and reptile diseases at the Clinic for Small Animals at the University of Leipzig . There she first became director of the newly founded clinic for birds and reptiles at the University of Leipzig in 2006 and, from 2007, also professor for bird and reptile diseases at this clinic.

research

Krautwald-Junghanns deals with ornamental, zoo and wild bird medicine and non-invasive, imaging diagnostics in birds. She has developed an ultrasound method that is one of the standard methods of examination for birds. In addition, she helped to develop a method for spectroscopic sex determination in fertilized hen's eggs, with which the sex of chicks can be determined three days after incubation. This can avoid killing chicks after they hatch. Krautwald-Junghanns is also investigating how the keeping and breeding of farm poultry can be implemented in a manner that is appropriate to the species and animal welfare.

Awards

Publications

Krautwald-Junghanns is the author of numerous scientific publications. Together with Erhard Franz Kaleta , she is the editor of the German standard work for bird medicine, the compendium of ornamental bird diseases . In addition, she is co-editor of the work Atlas of imaging diagnostics in pets .

Patents

Patent US2017205353 : METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC, IN OVO SEX DETERMINATION OF FERTILIZED AND INCUBATED BIRDS 'EGGS. Registered on July 3, 2015 , published on July 20, 2017 , applicant: Technische Universität Dresden, Universität Leipzig, inventor: BARTELS Thomas, GALLI Roberta, KOCH Edmund, KRAUTWALD-JUNGHANNS Maria-Elisabeth, PREUSSE Grit, STEINER Gerald. ‌

Patent US2012318981 : METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE SEX OF FERTILIZED, NONINCUBATED BIRD EGGS. Registered on January 14, 2011 , published on December 20, 2012 , applicant: BARTELS THOMAS, KOCH EDMUND, KRAUTWALD-JUNGHANNS MARIA-ELISABETH, STEINER GERALD, inventors: BARTELS THOMAS, KOCH EDMUND, KRAUTWALD-JUNGHANNS MARIA-ELISABETH. ‌

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Successful research on the exit from chick killing. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  2. ^ Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Research Prize. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  3. ^ Leopoldina members. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
  4. ^ List of publications by Maria-Elisabeth Krautwald-Junghanns on Google Scholar
personal data
SURNAME Krautwald-Junghanns, Maria-Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain