Dr. Paul Rye Kledal
Dr. Paul Rye Kledal is ‘Head of Research’ at Alpha Aqua Ltd. The company produces land-based aquaculture production systems with a strong R&D focus on closing loops of waste streams into alternative resources. In this regard, the company produces algea reactors, and has its own in-house production of algea for research.
Dr. Annette Bruhn
Dr. Bruhn works as a senior researcher in applied phycology at Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University. She works in the cross-field of macroalgae ecophysiology and biological oceanography, with focus on the sustainable production of macroalgae, and in particular the interactions between the macroalgae...
Dr. Rui Peirera
Dr Pereira is presently the Head of Seaweed Division at A4F – Algae for Future, a company with more than 15 years of experience in the field of algae biotechnology. Before this position, he was the research director at Algaplus, Lda, a company that he co-founded in 2012 and where he occupied different roles, from head of scientific projects...
Dr. Ronan Sulpice
Dr. Ronan Sulpice is a Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences at NUI Galway (Ireland) since 2012. He obtained his PhD (Plant Biology) from the University of Rennes (France) in 2000. This was followed by Researcher positions at the National Institute for Basic Biology (Japan), the Technical University of Munich (Germany)...
Dr. Gamze Turan
Dr. Turan’s scientific interests cover the areas of seaweeds, including Ulva mass production from nursery systems to grow-out systems with land-based and sea-based Ulva cultivation, including Ulva-based IMTA (Integtated multi-trophic aquaculture)...
Dr. Jolanta Sereikaitė
Her research is focused on the development and characterization of delivery systems of bioactive compounds. She is interested in Ulva sp. as a source of bioactive chemicals that can be used for the development of delivery systems of bioactive...
Dr. Karin Almlof
Since 2019 Karin has been working with Ulva intestinalis, investigating its potential as a local food product from the Stockholm archipelago and its ability to purify water and grow in a RAS system together with pike-perch. Methods of production...
Prof. Tatjana P. Stanojković
Prof. Dr. Tatjana Stanojkovic dedicated her research career to investigation in the field of experimental oncology. So far, this has resulted in the publication of nearly 130 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals...
Dr. Ricardo Bermejo
Dr. Ricardo Bermejo is an marine ecologist and phycologist. Currently, he is involved in a project focused on the understanding of the global and local environmental factors explaining the development of green tides in Ireland. Furthermore, he is leading a project ...
Angela Bartolo
Angela Bartolo is a final year PhD candidate in marine biology, with her research focusing on the genetics of macroalgae in Malta. Her research involves the development of methods and protocols for germling emergence, DNA barcoding, taxonomic...
Dr. Alexandros Charalambides
Dr. Alexandros Charalambides (M) is a full-time Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology and used to serve on the Board of Directors of the International Solar Energy...
Dr. Linda O’Higgins
Dr. Linda O’Higgins is a Principal Investigator in the Marine Microbiology and Biotechnology at the Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Ireland. Her research focuses on the ecology, physiology and metabolomics of aquatic algae...
Prof. Antonio Jesús Meléndez Martínez
Prof. Antonio Jesús Meléndez Martínez works on the sustainable production of quality health-promoting foods, with a focus on carotenoids. He has been the coordinator of international networks on the topic, such as IBERCAROT...
Dr. Lenka Hutárová
Dr. Lenka Hutárová is a phycologist, working at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia. Her research focuses on taxonomy, genetics, ecology and adaptability of extremophilic phototrophs. Her main goals are to study the phototrophic part...
Dr. Olympia Nisiforou
Dr Olympia Nisiforou is Certified in Quantitative Risk Management. She holds a BSc in Marine Science/Oceanography, an MSc in Learning in Natural Sciences, an MSc in Environmental Pollution Control and a PhD from the Department of...
Prof. Celine Rebours
Celine is an experimental marine biologist, specialized in Phycology. Since 2016, she began to work specifically on cultivation and product development for Ulva titled “TRANSALGAE: innovative solutions for the production of micro-and macroalgae biomass from waste...
Dr. Sotiris Orfanidis
Dr. Orfanidis has over 40 year’s experience in seaweed and Ulva unialgal cultivation and ecophysiology, emphasizing their growth and photosynthetic responses to environmental and anthropogenic stress. He is also concerned with using scale-based monitoring of seaweeds...
Dr. Martina Orlando Bonaca
Dr. Orlando-Bonaca works in the Biodiversity Laboratory of the Marine Biology Station Piran (National Institute of Biology of Slovenia). She is involved in the research of benthic flora and fauna, fish assemblage, mapping and assessment of the status of benthic...
Dr. Gabrielle Zammit
Dr. Zammit is a member of the academic staff at the Faculty of Science of the University of Malta. Her research involves different areas of phycology, including the description of novel strains and species via ecological, cytomorphological, biochemical and genetic studies...
Dr. Olivier De Clerck
Dr. De Clerck is a phycologist, working at Ghent University in Belgium . His research focuses on genetics, diversity and distributions of marine macroalgae. He addresses questions ranging from purely descriptive taxonomic studies, ecological studies forecasting the distribution...
Dr. Ioannis Tzovenis
Dr. Ioannis Tzovenis has over 30 years of professional experience in the field of algae biotechnology and aquaculture. Former academic, he founded Microphykos which serves as technical and scientific advisor for several companies producing Spirulina...
Prof. Tiina Paalme
Tiina Paalme works as associate professor at Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu. Her research is focused on ecophysiology and primary production of the Baltic Sea macroalgae, incl. effect of ocean acidification on benthic macroalgae...
Prof. Dr. Natasha Gjorgovska
Prof. Dr. Natasha Gjorgovska is a full-time professor in University Ss. Ciril and Methodius in Skopje, Institute of Animal Science. She is working in Department of Nutrition and Foodstuffs Processing and has over 20 years in animal...
Prof. Dr. İlknur Ak
Professor Dr. İlknur Ak is a member of the academic staff at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Department of Aquaculture. She has 25 years of experience in algae ecology, cultivation, products and currently making different...
Dr. Sylvia Strauss
Dr. Sylvia Strauss is a biologist and marine scientist currently working for The Seaweed Company in food development and human nutrition concepts including seaweed. Combining also a broad expertise in culinary science and fermentation with an understanding...
Prof. Susana Cristobal
Prof. Cristobal is Professor at the Dep of Biomedical Sciences, Medicine, Medical Faculty, Linköping University, Sweden, and she is also Guest Professor at the Basque Country Medical School, Spain. At Cristobal Lab, scientists are working in understanding the interactions...
Prof. Pierantonio Addis
Pierantonio Addis is an associate Professor in Ecology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. His research is on experimental analyses of processes that cause patterns of distribution and abundance in marine organisms, time-series analysis of univariate and...
Thomas Wichard
Thomas WichardThomas Wichard (Thomas.Wichard@uni-jena.de), Germany. He is a research group leader “Chemical Ecology of Cross-kingdom Interactions in macroalgae” at the Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the Friedrich...
Dr. Karina Balina
Dr. Karina Balina is a biologist and environmental engineer. She is a researcher at the University of Latvia. She works with environmental impact assessment of biotechnological and biorefinery processes using...
Prof. Karel J. Keesman
Karel J. Keesman is Personal Professor of “Systems Theory for Sustainability” with the Mathematical and Statistical Methods Group (Biometris), Wageningen University. His main research interests focus on the identification...
