Our Dedicated Speakers
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente (DISVA)
dell’Università Politecnica delle Marche
Italy
Group Director for Research & Development Aller Aqua Group, Denmark
Jesper Clausen has worked in the aquaculture industry for more than 23 years. He has worked with intergovernmental organizations like NACA and FAO, as well as for research institutions in Europe and Southeast Asia, and in recent 10 years been working with the feed industry to promote better nutrition and sustainability in aquaculture. After more than 20 years working and living in Thailand and Vietnam, Jesper recently moved back to Denmark, where he took the position of Group Director for RD in Aller Aqua, a company with 60 years of experience in aqua feed production. A holistic and practical approach to solving problems related to feed and farm management, as well as working with innovation have always been key for his work in our industry.
Former Director of the Research Institute for Aquaculture No. 1 (RIA1) Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Vietnam
Team Leader for Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN Vietnam
Principal Scientist
Interdisciplinary Center for Aquaculture Research
INCAR
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción _ Puerto Montt
CHILE
Doris Soto a Chilean National, pHD in Ecology (1988 UC Davis-San Diego State University USA) was a professor at Universidad Austral de Chile in Puerto Montt between 1990 and 2004. From 2005 Doris was a Senior Aquaculture officer at UN FAO headquarters in Rome, leading the team on aquaculture-environmental interactions including numerous field projects and initiatives in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. She also led the development of guidelines for the implementation of an ecosystem approach to aquaculture including the implications of climate change for the sector, promoting some of the first global studies on climate change and aquaculture adaptation. Dr Soto also piloted the implementation of a FAO tool to assess UN countries compliance with the code of conduct for responsible fisheries (CCRF) in aquaculture (article 9). Since 2017, Dr. Soto has been working on research and training at the Interdisciplinary Center for Aquaculture Research, INCAR, in Chile[1], leading areas on climate change and the implementation of the ecosystem approach to aquaculture through national and international collaboration, she has been on the advisory panel of national fisheries and aquaculture institutions, she is also a member of the advisory panel of WWF-Chile and she has continued collaborating with FAO at global level. Dr Soto has published numerous scientific papers on top ranking journals and UN publications[2].
[1] https://centroincar.cl/en/
[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oDsvX3AAAAAJ&hl=en
https://research.com/scientists-rankings/environmental-sciences/cl
Professor of Aquaculture
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Professor Ike OLIVOTTO is a Professor of Aquaculture at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. He is author of more than 100 indexed papers related to aquaculture and he has participated to many national and international conferences.
Since years, his main research areas are related to fish welfare and development in relation to sustainability. More specifically professor Olivotto is involved in projects testing new and sustainable aquafeed ingredients like insect meal and single cell proteins, the effects of dietary microplastics on fish welfare and development, possible solutions to counteract the side effects of dietary microplastics in fish, as well the application and the development of new technologies for water treatment (IMTA, aquaponics, photocatalysis).
The laboratory where he works has modern equipment to run several analyses on biological samples to have a comprehensive overview of fish physiological responses. These include molecular biology techniques, histology, confocal microscopy, FT-IR spectroscopy, immunohistochemical techniques as well the possibility to run fish tests in a dedicated wet lab equipped with modern tanks for temperate, ornamental, and polar species (The aquarium lab). To ensure an international environment several foreign PhD students, post-docs and scientists are visiting his lab.
He is part of the editorial board of “Animals” journal, aquatic animal section and one of the editors of the book “Marine Ornamental Species Aquaculture”. Wiley Bleckwell, Oxford, UK. ISBN: 978-0-470-67390-4”.
Additionally, he is guest editor of the two special issues ” Sustainable Aquaculture: Nutrition Studies in Early Developing Finfish, Ornamentals and Experimental Model Fish” and “Innovations in Aquaculture Sustainability and Endangered Aquatic Species Conservation: Advances in Reproduction, New Aquafeed Formulations, Sustainable Farming Systems, Emerging Contaminants, and Waste Treatment and Revalorization” for Animals Journal.
The most important projects Prof. Ike OLIVOTTO is/was participating are the following:
– HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions, HORIZON-CL6-2023-CircBio-02-3-two-stage ONE EARTH -Non-plant biomass feedstock for industrial applications: technologies and processes to convert non-lignocellulosic biomass and waste into bio-basedchemicals, materials and products, improving the cascading valorization of biomass.
– CARIMED HORIZON-MISS-2022-CLIMA-01-06 Climate Adaptation and Resilience Demonstrated In the MEDiterranean region.
– HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01. Bringing knowledge and consensus to prevent and reduce FOod LOss at the primary production stage. Understanding, measuring, training and adopting.
– PO FEAMP 2014-2020, Misura 2.50-2 level Master in Aquaculture
– Cariverona, Caritro, PSR, Ager 2 projects about the use of sustainable ingredients in aquaculture.
Assistant Professor
Department of Marine Science and Fisheries
College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences
Sultan Qaboos University
Oman
Dr. Sachinandan Dutta currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Marine Science and Fisheries, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, where he teaches Fisheries Management. With a diverse educational background ranging from Zoology to Conservation Biology, Oceanography, and Fisheries Management, Dr. Dutta holds a Ph.D. in Ecosystem Modeling and Fisheries Management from Jadavpur University, India. His research interests lie in Fisheries Management, Ecosystem Modeling, and Conservation Biology, focusing on the sustainable management of marine resources. Dr. Dutta has a rich academic and professional portfolio, including teaching positions, research projects, and consultancy roles. He has published 40 peer-reviewed papers in international journals. He was awarded the UNESCO- Man and Biosphere (MAB) Young Scientists Award for 2022 from Oman. He also serves as an International Sectoral Expert in Fisheries and Marine Resources at United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). He was also involved different groups of FAO such as Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem (BOBLME), State of Stock (SOS).
Professor of Aquaculture and International School Coordinator
School of Molecular and Life Science/Faculty of Science and Engineering
Curtin University
Malaysia
