Turid Synnøve Aas is a Senior Scientist in the Nutrition and Feed Technology Department at Nofima. She holds a PhD in Nutrition from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and her research covers a range of feed-related issues in aquaculture. In recent years, her work has focused particularly on feed utilisation, resource efficiency and…
Tom Ole Nilsen is an Associate Professor of Fish Physiology and Aquaculture at the University of Bergen. His research focuses on how environmental factors such as light, temperature and salinity affect smoltification, smolt quality and physiological robustness in salmonids. In recent years, he has focused particularly on challenges associated with the production of large smolts…
Hege Øverlie has an educational background in technology management and sensor systems from NTNU, as well as experience in developing both software and hardware for advanced sensor systems. With a background in underwater robotics, she has a strong understanding of how technology must operate in demanding environments in order to deliver reliable data. At OptoScale,…
Kristoffer Lindback Larsen is Founder and CTO of Evolys AS. Since its establishment in 2014, Evolys has taken a scientific approach to the use of technology-based lighting in Atlantic salmon and trout farming. As a Norwegian research and technology company, its work has focused primarily on understanding how optimal techno-economic performance and fish health can…
Ida Beitnes Johansen is an Associate Professor of Physiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). She completed her PhD at NMBU in 2011, researching stress physiology in salmonids. Her research focuses particularly on how environmental and biological factors affect fish physiology, development and phenotypic plasticity. In recent years, cardiac…
Ole Gabriel Kverneland holds an MSc in Aquaculture, specialising in the relationship between water quality and smolt quality. More than 20 years ago, he became the first employee in AKVA group’s land-based aquaculture venture. Over 14 years, he contributed to the company’s growth and to the strategic acquisition and merger processes that positioned AKVA group…
Eirik Moen Lillebudal is Co-founder of EquaFish, which is developing a decision-support platform for smolt facilities. The platform brings together data from existing systems in a single overview, giving biologists, operational staff and management a shared basis for detecting deviations early, understanding their causes and assessing measures before they are implemented. Before entering the aquaculture…
Jan Christian Kerlefsen is R&D Director at AKVA group Land Based. He holds a degree in computer engineering from the University of Newcastle, UK, and has more than 30 years of experience in research, technology development and technology management. Before joining AKVA group in 2021, he worked at the Norwegian Computing Center, Sony Corporation’s research…
Christian Rønning works with Business Development at Artec Aqua VAQ. He has a Master of Science in Environmental Technology from the University of Manchester. Christian worked for ten years in the paper industry in Austria before moving back to Norway in 2011 and starting as a project manager for aquaculture projects at Krüger Kaldnes. From…
Roman Netzer is a Senior Research Scientist in aquaculture at SINTEF Ocean, specialising in microbiology. He is a trained biologist and completed his PhD in biology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, followed by postdoctoral research in microbial biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. Over more than a decade in aquaculture research, he has worked extensively…
