Dr Kirsty Kliem
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+44 (0) 118 378 8481
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Associate Professor
- Co-Head of Department of Animal Sciences (with Dr Caroline Rymer).
- Module convenor and contributor, teaching topics including undergraduate animal science in practice, animal Nutrition, and animal health and disease.
- Research on improving the health quality of primarily milk and dairy products (but also monogastric-derived food products and ruminant-derived meat).
- Research on nutritional physiology of domestic animals, and the effect of nutritional intervention on animal health.
- Supervision and academic tutoring of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- Member of the SAPD Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Self-Assessment Team for Athena Swan.
Areas of interest
Research interests include:
- Improving the health quality of milk and dairy products (primarily improving the fatty acid profile) by changing the dairy cow diet.
- Investigating the effect of the dairy matrix on the absorption of dairy fat.
- Effect of dietary interventions on the health and welfare of the dairy cow.
- Development of biomarkers in milk for the detection of dairy cow disease.
- Presence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in livestock.
- In vitro digestion assessment of animal feeds (particularly fatty acid digestion).
Postgraduate supervision
- Primary supervisor: Victoria Ham (PhD: Improving benchmarking techniques to support 21st century dairy farming)
- Second supervisor: Nurul Fitri Sari (PhD: Additives of plant origin as modulators of rumen methane production); Ahmed Musheer Abdulrahman (PhD: Evaluation of fermented sunflower meal in broiler chicken diets).
Teaching
In addition to module convening and classroom teaching, my interests include:
- Enhancing undergraduate experience through teaching practical laboratory and research skills
- Supervising laboratory-based undergraduate independent research projects and postgraduate students.
- Increasing awareness of employment opportunities via contacts/visits with relevant employment sectors.
Academic qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Animal Science, University of Reading, 1998
- PhD, University of Reading, 2010
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Accredited Animal Scientist (R. Anim. Sci.)
- Active member of the British Society of Animal Science (former member of Council, Trustee and Chair of the Accreditation and Membership Committee).
- Editor (Quality of Animal Products section) for the journal “Animal”.
- Associate Editor for the journal “Lipids”.
- Member of Food standards Agency Register of Experts for Animal Feeds.
- Peer reviewer for Animal, Journal of Dairy Research, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Livestock Production Science, Journal of Agricultural Science, Lipids.
- External and internal PhD examiner.