Prof Mills is professor of Veterinary Behavioural Medicine at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is a practising veterinary surgeon and academic who has specialised in the management of problem behaviour and the human-animal bond for nearly 35 years. In 2004 he was the first individual to be recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons as a specialist in veterinary behavioural medicine, and in 2016 was further recognised by them as the first individual to be granted Fellowship status for his contributions to this field. He was also Europe’s first professor of his discipline and has pioneered a scientific transformation of our understanding of companion animal problem behaviour, through the development of a “psychobiological approach” to clinical animal behaviour assessment. Much of his work is transdisciplinary and he is included in the top half of Stanford University’s list of the top 2% of scientists in the world, and recognised as one of the world’s top psychology researchers by research.com. He has published more than 200 full peer-reviewed scientific articles and more than 60 books and chapters. He runs an audio and YouTube podcast series “What makes you click?”, which features chats with inspirational friends in the field of animal behaviour he has had the benefit of getting to know over the course of his career (https://www.facebook.com/dsmpod).