Collaborators

AQUAPONICS OPTI is a multidisciplinary effort involving seven institutions worldwide: The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the University of Washington, USA, Ataturk University, Turkey, the Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Germany, the National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan, the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Collaborators

AQUAPONICS OPTI is a multidisciplinary effort involving seven institutions worldwide: The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the University of Washington, USA, Ataturk University, Turkey, the Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Germany, the National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan, the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Dr. Alyssa Joyce

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Project Coordinator

The project coordinator, Dr. Alyssa Joyce, is an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg with over 15 years experience in marine biology working in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. Dr. Joyce is an experienced project leader and expert in aquaculture and aquaponics who has worked on a wide range of projects internationally aimed at increasing the sustainability of food production within the concept of a more circular bioeconomy. Dr. Joyce has a diverse background spanning technical, research and management aspects within the seafood industry, including strong linkages with community, industry, and government stakeholders.

Professor Gundula Proksch

University of Washington, USA

Project Partner

Gundula Proksch is an Associate Professor in the College of Built Environments and the Founding Director of the Circular City and Living Systems Lab (CCLS), an interdisciplinary research group investigating transformative strategies for sustainable urban futures.


Her NSF-funded research focuses on the integration of living systems in the built environment at various scales. These systems include aquaponics, controlled environment agriculture (CEA), food systems, algae cultivation, and engineered living systems (ELiS). Professor Proksch’s interdisciplinary sustainability research builds on her professional experience spanning fifteen years of practice in Europe and the United States.

Gundula Proksch

University of Washington, USA

Project Partner

Gundula Proksch is an Associate Professor in the College of Built Environments and the Founding Director of the Circular City and Living Systems Lab (CCLS), an interdisciplinary research group investigating transformative strategies for sustainable urban futures.

 

Her NSF-funded research focuses on the integration of living systems in the built environment at various scales. These systems include aquaponics, controlled environment agriculture (CEA), food systems, algae cultivation, and engineered living systems (ELiS). Professor Proksch’s interdisciplinary sustainability research builds on her professional experience spanning fifteen years of practice in Europe and the United States.

<span data-metadata=""><span data-buffer="">Dr. Abdulkadir Bayir

<span data-metadata=""><span data-buffer="">Ataturk University, Turkey

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Abdulkadir Bayır is a Professor in the Fisheries Faculty at Ataturk University. For the past 20 years, he has worked on fish nutrition, molecular genomics, and optimization of recirculating aquaculture systems and aquaponics systems. Professor Bayır is currently involved in several interdisciplinary (from Africa to North America) sustainable aquaculture projects. In this project, he will lead work on the optimization control systems, including IoT, biosensors, and automation of aquaponics systems. He will also play a key role in breeding economically valuable new fish native species in the aquaponics system.

Dr. Oliver Koerner

Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops

Project Partner

Dr. Körner is lead of a research group on controlled environment crop production systems at the Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops near Berlin, Germany. He is a greenhouse horticultural scientist interested in resource conservation in intensive horticultural crop production. He focuses on understanding the underlying processes and interactions between the dynamics of climate, microclimate and plants in protected environments such as greenhouses or aquaponics operations. He translates process-based mathematical models as sub-components in soft-sensors used for greenhouse monitoring.

Dr. Oliver Koerner

Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops.

Project Partner

Dr. Körner is lead of a research group on controlled environment crop production systems at the Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops near Berlin, Germany. He is a greenhouse horticultural scientist interested in resource conservation in intensive horticultural crop production. He focuses on understanding the underlying processes and interactions between the dynamics of climate, microclimate and plants in protected environments such as greenhouses or aquaponics operations. He translates process-based mathematical models as sub-components in soft-sensors used for greenhouse monitoring.

Professor Fan-Hua Nan

Department of Aquaculture, College of Life Sciences, National Taiwan Ocean University, Distinguished Professor

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Professor Nan, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Aquaculture, College of Life Sciences, is the Principal Investigator of the Aquaculture and Physiology Lab at NTOU since 1991. Dr. Nan specializes in sustainable aquaculture (aquaponics, algaeponics, and RAS), aquaculture management, and the development and the application of AI techniques. Prof. Nan is very experienced with a wide range of aquatic animal cultivation i.e. grouper, sea bass, cobia, tilapia, abalone, and crustaceans. His work in aquaculture includes fish and shellfish health and welfare and optimization of nutrient recovery, with a focus on optimization of nitrogen and carbon recapture in aquaculture.

<span data-metadata=""><span data-buffer="">Dr. Maria Celia Portella

Professor, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

Project Partner

Maria Célia Portella is an Associate Professor of the Sao Paulo State University (UNESP, Brazil) and of the Aquaculture Center of UNESP. She is Past-President of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS), Past-President of the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of WAS (LACC/WAS) and consultant of FAO for sustainable aquaculture. She was the Brazilian lead of the former Belmont Forum CITYFOOD consortium, during which time she set up a Living Lab at UNESP consisting of a 100 m2 greenhouse hosting 16 individual aquaponics systems specially designed for experimental purposes. This facility will be available in this new Aquaponics Opti project for experiments, as well as training of students / outreach with different stakeholders.

<span data-metadata=""><span data-buffer="">Maria Celia Portella

Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

Project Partner

Maria Célia Portella is an Associate Professor of the Sao Paulo State University (UNESP, Brazil) and of the Aquaculture Center of UNESP. She is Past-President of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS), Past-President of the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of WAS (LACC/WAS) and consultant of FAO for sustainable aquaculture. She was the Brazilian lead of the former Belmont Forum CITYFOOD consortium, during which time she set up a Living Lab at UNESP consisting of a 100 mgreenhouse hosting 16 individual aquaponics systems specially designed for experimental purposes. This facility will be available in this new Aquaponics Opti project for experiments, as well as training of students / outreach with different stakeholders.

Dr. Khalid Salie

Stellenbosch University, South Africa

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Dr. Salie is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Animal Sciences and the Academic Coordinator of the Aquaculture Programme at Stellenbosch University. He has been involved in aquaculture research for more than 20 years and has established global collaborative networks among private, public, and community stakeholders. His research focuses on water ecology, aquaponics, and sustainable aquaculture development. He serves as Director for the Southern Region of the African Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society. His outreach focusses on training and mentoring of students and emerging scientists.