Dr. Veronika Halas PhD is an associate professor at the Institute of Physiology and Nutrition, Department of Farm Animal Nutrition. She serves as the head of Department of Farm Animal Nutrition.Ino Curik is an internationally recognised professor of animal genetics at the Institute of Animal Science, Kaposvár Campus, with an additional affiliation at the University of Zagreb. He brings more than three decades of experience in conservation genomics, quantitative and population genetics, and the sustainable management of genetic diversity in domestic animals. In recognition of outstanding scientific achievements, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (BOKU). A major part of his scientific legacy lies in horse genetics. The co-discovery of the genetic mutation responsible for coat greying and melanoma in horses, published in Nature Genetics, represents a landmark contribution to the field. Subsequent work has substantially advanced the understanding of pigmentation, health, inbreeding, and population structure in horse breeds, particularly the Lipizzan horse, through the integration of genomic, pedigree, and historical data. With nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications, his work is especially influential in developing genomic methodologies for estimating inbreeding, inbreeding depression, and effective population size in livestock populations. Recent research extends to whole-genome and mitogenome analyses, with a growing focus on archaeogenetics, linking modern genomic data with ancient DNA to reconstruct domestication processes and long-term evolutionary dynamics. A defining achievement is leadership of the MendTheGap project (Smart Integration of Genetics with Sciences of the Past), ranked as the number one project in the Horizon 2020 Twinning call, which successfully bridged animal genetics with archaeology and established durable international research networks across Europe.

Her research focuses on nutrition of monogastric farm animals, particularly to assess nutritional value of pig and poultry feeds, determination of energy and protein value of feedstuffs. She has conducted number of research on digestibility of nutrients, especially amino acids at different intestinal sections, in response to dietary treatments in nursery piglets, growing and fattening pigs and poultry. Her expertise lies also in mathematical modeling of nutrient utilization and development of precision feeding systems. She has recently worked on assessing early feeding methods, particularly in ovo nutrition in poultry. Her team's new research area focuses on stress-related physiological changes in swine that impact nutrient use mechanisms.
She authored and co-authored more than 60 research articles in high-impact scientific journals and 16 book chapters. She has over 650 independent citations.

Ass. Prof. Halas has contributed in numbers of national research programs and collaborated with different research groups across Europe. She participated in a H2020 program between 2015-2020 as the leader of work package dealing with mathematical modeling. Within the framework of the Feed-a-Gene program (N°: 633531), the Kaposvár research group has developed a model that is suitable for estimating the value of nutrients taken in with feed in the case of monogastric animals, pigs, broiler chickens and laying hens. Her team is currently participating in a Horizon 2020 program (PIGWEB, No 101004770), the aim of which is to evaluate the applicability of non-invasive techniques (e.g. NIRS, electromyography) in pig research, as well as development of a proxy tool box in order to better understand the differences occurring in the growth efficiency of pigs. 

She is a section Editor of Animal: The International Journal of Animal Biosciences.