MOTA ROJAS, DANIEL

Daniel has an extensive research background in applied animal behavior and welfare, with a comprehensive, multi-species approach to assessing well-being. His work focuses on the neurobiology of emotions and animal communication, integrating methodologies to evaluate emotional perception, cognitive bias, and positive and negative affective states. His research also addresses facial expression analysis, pain and fear monitoring in veterinary medicine, and thermoregulatory responses to stress.

He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals (indexed in Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science), accumulating more than 10,000 citations and an h-index standing at 44. He is Editor-in-Chief of Animal Welfare Book (Elsevier, Spanish-language edition) and has led 20 books, including six editions of The Water Buffalo in the Americas and four editions of Animal Welfare in Ibero-America. He has been collaborating for several years with Dr. Temple Grandin on three eBooks published by Frontiers (Switzerland), focusing on 1) "Animal Communication", 2) "Environmental Enrichment", and 3) "Animal cognition and emotion".

He is a Level III Researcher of the National Council of Sciences in Mexico and has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII) for over 20 years. He is also a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Mexican Veterinary Academy.

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