Following a successful career as Professor of Animal Science and Fisheries & Wildlife at Michigan State University, Dr. Juan P. Steibel currently is the J.L. Lush Endowed Chair of Animal Breeding and Genetics at Iowa State University. His academic background include a B.S. in agronomy and an M.S. in Biometry from Argentina, and a Ph.D. in Animal Science from Michigan State University. Juan investigates development, adaptation, and application of statistical and computational methods to advance animal production and breeding by integrating multi-omics data streams. His current and past research spans expression QTL mapping, genotype imputation, genome-wide association analyses, and high-throughput behavioral phenotyping and its use to estimate social interaction effects in group-housed pigs. His work is methodologically innovative and driven by the needs of the livestock genetics and production industries. Juan and his wife Harlem live in Ames, Iowa, and have an adult daughter, Maria Eva.