Christine Klykken is Research Director at Aqua Kompetanse, a knowledge and advisory company that provides evidence-based services to the aquaculture industry. She works to connect research, industry needs and regulations so that new knowledge can be put into practice. At the Smolt Conference, she will present work on novel blood-based smolt markers, including the opportunities…
Marit Stormoen qualified as a veterinarian in 2003 and began her career with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority in Sunnmøre, where her interest in both aquaculture and population medicine was sparked. She completed a PhD in epidemiology at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NVH), entitled Disease Control in Norwegian Marine Salmon Aquaculture. She subsequently…
Sonal Patel is a Senior Research Scientist in fish health at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute. She completed a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Bergen, specialising in halibut, and has worked for several years on fish health and disease transmission in halibut, cod and salmon at the Institute of Marine Research and the…
Christian Schellewald is a senior research scientist at SINTEF Ocean. His research focuses on computer vision and artificial intelligence, particularly methods for observing fish behaviour, health and welfare in aquaculture. He leads and contributes to research projects developing camera-based methods for monitoring individual salmon and welfare-related indicators under production conditions. He is also affiliated with…
Eldar Lien is manager of Innovation and Technology at Searas AS, a Norwegian tech company that develops solutions for water quality and production optimization in aquaculture. He has a master’s degree in technical physics, is one of two founders of Searas, and has been working with product and technology development since the early ’80s. At…
Marius Nilsen is a researcher at NORCE and has several years of experience as a technician in the Aquaculture and Marine Biodiversity research group. In addition to collecting and processing biological samples, he has contributed to data analysis in several major projects related to fish health, welfare and stress in salmonids. This has also been…
Gaute Alexander Nedberg Helberg is responsible for smolt and RAS biology at Lerøy Seafood Group. He holds a PhD from UiT The Arctic University of Norway, focusing on the acoustic monitoring of Atlantic salmon in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). His work combines fish welfare, production biology and data analysis to develop methods that can provide…
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,…
