Agustín Blasco studied Agriculture engineering and obtained his Ph D with a Thesis about Rabbit genetics. His career has been focused in quantitative genetics and animal breeding, particularly with pigs and rabbits, with a recent interest in ethics and animal welfare. He was president of the World Rabbit Science Association and editor-in-chief of the international journal World Rabbit Science (indexed in JCR in Quartile 2). He took three sabbatical years as a visiting researcher, one in what was called Animal Breeding Research Organisation (now Rolsin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland), another one in the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Jouy-en-Josas, France), and also in FAO (Rome, Italy). He has been awarded by the European Association for Animal Production and by the Spanish Association of Animal Science.