Dr. Carmen Alonso was born in Madrid (central Spain). She graduated from the Complutense University of Veterinary Medicine in Madrid in 2003 with a postgraduate specialization in Swine Production Medicine from the Autonoma University of Barcelona in 2004. Following that, Dr Alonso worked as a swine practitioner in the Canary Islands, participating in a swine disease eradication project on 4 of the islands in this southeastern province of Spain (Tenerife Province).
Dr Alonso then moved her residence to the Spanish province of Catalonia in 2005 and joined the veterinary swine group at the Cooperative d’Ivars (a farmer owned cooperative of 40,000 sows). Catalonia is one of the most important swine production regions in Europe. She worked at this cooperative for 5 years in swine health and production consultation.
From 2010-2016, Dr. Alonso worked as a research assistant at the University of Minnesota while completing her MSc (The use of Air Filtration and its economic analysis for the entry of the PRRS virus into large sow herds within swine dense regions) and her PhD (Concentration, size distribution, and control of swine viruses associated with airborne particles).
In 2016, Dr. Alonso joined Elanco as Elanco Knowledge Solutions senior consultant in swine analytics. In 2017, Dr. Alonso created in Barcelona (Spain) her own business as an independent data analysis consultant for the swine industry merging with Dr. Carles Vilalta in 2020 and creating the consultancy firm Upnorth analytics.
Currently, Dr. Alonso works for Boehringer Ingelheim as a Senior Technical Manager within the IHM division (Integrated Health Management). She is responsible for the technical support and data analysis of precision livestock farming technologies applied in animal production.
