Dr. Lisa Gunter

Dr. Lisa Gunter is an Assistant Professor of Animal Behavior & Welfare at Virginia Tech in the School of Animal Sciences and directs the Center for Applied Animal Behavior & Education (CAARE).

Before beginning her graduate studies, she worked for nearly a decade in animal shelters and with pet dogs and their owners. The goal of Lisa’s teaching, research, and extension is to better the lives of people and their pets.

Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Coastal Carolina University and the Maddie’s Fund Research Fellow at Arizona State University.

Lisa is a certified applied animal behaviorist and earned her PhD and MA degrees in the behavioral neuroscience and comparative psychology program at Arizona State University in the Canine Science Collaboratory.