Wouter Hendriks

Prof. Wouter Hendriks holds a main position as Professor of Animal Nutrition at Wageningen University and a secondary position as Professor of Nutrition at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University. He is based at the Martinus G. de Bruin Building in Utrecht, Netherlands. His research focuses on animal nutrition, rumen fermentation dynamics, feed additives, and environmental impacts of livestock systems. He actively contributes to the scientific community through editorial roles in journals like Animal Feed Science and Technology and Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition.

His research interests include optimizing feed strategies to reduce methane emissions, evaluating tropical feedstuffs, and investigating nutritional biochemistry in companion animals. He chairs the GMP+ Expert Committee and advises Scholtus BV. His work spans livestock health, dairy cattle metabolism, and pet nutrition, with a focus on sustainable practices in animal agriculture.

Prof. Hendriks collaborates on projects addressing feed digestibility, advanced glycation end products (AGEs), and UVB radiation effects on vitamin D synthesis in reptiles. He has published extensively on rumen microbiology, dietary fiber utilization, and nutritional management of farm animals.