Summary & Expertise
- ~30 years experience in research and education of several fields including Ecological Modelling, Numerical Ecology, Climate Change Studies, Fisheries, Aquaculture, Marine Ecology, Oceanography, Limnology, Ecotoxicology, Biotechnology, Biomass Valorisation and Blue Economy.
- Deeply engaged in the process of innovation through creation of several interfaces between various disciplines (i.e., biology & physics, biology and mathematics, biology-ecology-computer science, ecology-physics-chemistry and others) and also between private and public sectors.
- Organised several international events and hosted many junior and senior scientists from several countries around the world.
- Supervised > 20 PhD students ; >10 post-doc ; >10 research assistants and several undergraduate students. Coordinated several research projects at national and international levels.
- Published >250 research papers in peer reviewed journals including top journals (Nature, Natures Communications, PNAS, eLife, Global Change Biology, Environmental Science & Technology and others) that were cited >11000 times.
- Co-inventor of two patents based on the use of nanotechnology in the field of Aquaculture.
- Acting as a scientific expert and collaborator for different national and international entities.
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