Christine Baes

Christine F. Baes is Professor and Associate Dean of External Relations ; Canada Research Chair in Livestock Genomics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She began her five-year term in the role in May 2023. She is also a professor and Canada Research Chair in Livestock Genomics at Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph.

Early life and education Christine F. Baes was born in Southwestern Ontario. Having grown up around cows on a dairy farm, she completed her Bachelors degree at the University of Guelph, she then finished her Masters of Science degree in Animal Welfare at the University Hohenheim. She completed her PhD in Quantitative Genetics at the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology and the Christian Albrechts University zu Kiel in Germany.

She began teaching at the University of Hohenheim in 2009. 2019 Canada Research Chair 2024 J. L. Lush Award the American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA®) in Animal Breeding