Professor and researcher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Juan José Pascual, has been named Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of San Antonio del Cusco (Peru). The professor Pascual has been awarded in recognition of their educational, scientific and editorial contributions aimed at promoting the development of rabbit breeding in Latin America as a tool for rural development and poverty reduction.
Juan José Pascual performs its work in the field of research at the Institute of Animal Science and Technology of the UPV. His studies focus on nutrition rabbit meat, mainly on issues such as the valuation of raw materials for food, the adequacy of nutrition to genetic type and environmental conditions, and development of feed to optimize production yields and animal health.
He has participated in 37 competitive research projects and 18 contract R & D now also has 91 scientific publications and since 2005 editor in chief of the magazine “World Rabbit Science”, the most important worldwide on Rabbit science and the only published by the UPV with impact in the JCR.
In the educational field, he teaches at the School of Agricultural Engineering and the Environment. Linked to Latin America, Professor Pascual has led in recent years different rabbit thesis students and teachers from Peru, Venezuela and Brazil. Also directs the Rabbit online Course UPV that forms every year a significant number of Spanish and Latin American professionals; and in recent years it has taught various seminars on rabbit production to encourage its use as a sustainable source of high value protein in disadvantaged regions.
He is deputy director of the Department of Animal Science and the Institute of Animal Science and Technology. Also coordinates the Doctoral Program of Science and Technology of Animal Production and directs cunícola Title Production Specialist.
Source: UPV
