Astrid Buran Holan

Astrid Buran Holan. Foto: Fossbakk Foto.

Astrid Buran Holan is Head of Fish Welfare in ScaleAQ group, which is an international company within aquaculture that provides innovation, technology and equipment to aquaculture customers globally. Her main focus in ScaleAQ is fish welfare including optimal water quality and farming environment, as well as biological risk assessments in accordance with current animal welfare laws and regulations. She contributes to the company’s sustainability strategy, communication and training, and also holds a position as associate professor II at the University of Tromsø (UiT).

She has a doctorate from NTNU in environmental technology and land-based recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), and a master’s in biological wastewater treatment. Before starting at ScaleAQ, she worked for several years as a researcher at Nofima.