Finbar John Mulligan

Finbar John Mulligan

Short Bio:

Finbar Mulligan graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, UCD in 1996 with a first class honours degree majoring in animal science.
He subsequently completed a masters degree by research in the area of feed evaluation for ruminants and a PhD programme in the area of ruminant digestion.  Much of his early work was used in the development of The Irish Net Energy System for Cattle and Sheep.
He has published widely in the area of ruminant nutrition on a range of topics including digestion kinetics of ruminant animals, the protein nutrition of dairy cattle and nutrition and production diseases in dairy cows.
He is currently a college Lecturer in Animal Nutrition in the School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, at University College Dublin and works closely with veterinarians within the School in the area of dairy herd health.
He has current research projects at UCD Lyons Research Farm and Teagasc Moorepark.
These projects concentrate on dairy cow nutrition and transition cow health.
He regularly participates in dairy herd health investigations as well as giving presentations on the area of dairy herd health to farmers, nutritionists and veterinarians.
He has recently organised two international conferences in the areas of transition cow health and nutrition fertility interactions of dairy cows.
He regularly contributes to international scientific meetings and is an Associate Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition