Joni Delanoeije is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in work and organizational psychology (KU Leuven & Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium) and human-animal interaction (KU Leuven & Odisee University of Applied Sciences, Belgium). She is in charge of her own research projects on employee well-being, one welfare and the inclusion of animals in working and education environments (“office dogs” and “campus cats”), in which she collaborates with Ghent University, Washington State University and others. She obtained her PhD in Business Economics in 2019, which focused on sustainable work with regard to the work-home interface, specifically on how new ways of working relate to employee well-being and performance. Academically trained in theoretical psychology, business economics and dog ethology, and with a practitioner’s background in clinical dog behavior, her main research topics include sustainable human-animal interactions using a one welfare approach, i.e. simultaneously addressing people, animal and environmental well-being. Combining insights from organizational and systems psychology, ethology and anthrozoology, she aims to further the understanding of human-animal interactions in our society.

She is a regular invited speaker at academic and practitioner’s conferences and she has published in Human Relations; Anthrozoös; Applied Animal Behaviour Science; Ethology; Resources, Conservation & Recycling; Journal of Vocational Behavior; European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology; Frontiers in Psychology and others. Besides her work as a researcher, Joni is an animal behavior trainer and gets engaged in activities aiming for a better world for human and non-human animals.

On a personal note, she lives in Lubbeek, Belgium, together with her two-legged lover and daughter, two dogs and a cat. She spends her free time on horse training/riding, running, reading, and dreaming about the future.