Dr Lynne Sneddon is an academic at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and her research aims to drive the agenda for improving the welfare of fishes. Lynne obtained a Ph.D on animal behaviour, physiology and neurobiology from the University of Glasgow and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at the Roslin Institute where she was the first to characterise nociceptors (pain receptors) in a fish. Since then, Lynne has led her own laboratory and has demonstrated the capacity for pain in fishes which has led to changes in their treatment to safeguard fish welfare.