5^th Euro-Global Summit on Aquaculture & Fisheries March 30-31, 2017 Madrid, Spain

Graduate in Chemistry (1977) and Ph. D. (1984) in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Barcelona and post-doctoral fellow at the Vrije Universiteit from Amsterdam, Netherlands (1985-1986). Since 1999 full Research Professor at IDAEA-CSIC and Head of the Environmental Chemistry Department till may 2008. Since this date Director of the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) and from 2009-2014 Visiting Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 2007 he received the Prize King Jaime I on the Protection of Nature 2007 as well as the 2012.Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) 5th Award on Water Management & Protection, Saudi Arabia. and the 2012.Recipharm Environmental Award , Sweden. In the year 2014. he was Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Ioannina, Greece.. He has published over 890 scientific papers in journals of SCI (Hirsch index of 92), 197 book chapters, he is co-author of 1 book on Pesticides analysis in the environment and editor of 28 books on Environmental analysis and fate of pollutants. He is member of the Editorial board of several journals covering the topics of analytical and environmental chemistry. Supervisor of 47 Ph. D. thesis (1992-2016) on environmental analysis, fate and behaviour of organic pollutants and carbon-based nanomaterials in water, sediment and biota using mass spectrometric techniques, immunoassay, toxic assays and biosensors. Member of the Scientific Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (2004-2009) and Panel Member of the EURYI (European Young Investigator Awards) from ESF (2004-2007) . During the period 2011-2015 he was Chair of the Scientific and Technological Board (STB) of the EU-Joint Programming Initiative on “Water challenges for a changing World”. At present he is Coordinator of the EU funded projects GLOBAQUA. Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity (2014-2019) and SEA-on-a-CHIP. Real time monitoring of SEA contaminants by an autonomous Lab-- on-a-chip biosensor (2013-2017). He is CoEditor in Chief of Sciennce of the Total Environment (Elsevier) since 2012.

aquatic ecosystems,environmental analysis,carbon-based nanomaterials in water,fate and behaviour of organic pollutants

Dr. Gang Pan had spent more than ten years in UK universities (UEA, Leeds Univ, Plymouth Univ., and Imperial College) before returned to China to take the lead in several national key research projects. He is the Chairman of Global Phosphorus Recycling Initiative, SCOPE , chief scientist of a Sino-EU governmental cooperation program on water science (Ministry of Science and Technology), deputy chief-scientist of a national R&D program on Taihu Lake and project leader for three national key basic research projects . He is the vice president of Chinese Association of Aquatic Environment, board member of Chinese Society of Environmental Nanotechnology, board member of Chinese Society of Environment and Energy, board member of NSF assessment panel, board member of Chinese Society of Limnology and Oceanology, member of American Chemical Society, and member of editorial board of 5 peer reviewed journals. He has published more than 190 peer reviewed papers( H-Index 35) and issued more than 50 patents. The H index of his publication is 35. Dr. Gang Pan pioneered in developing cost-effective and safe technologies for toxic algal blooms and water pollution controls as well as nutrient recycle/reuse technologies in natural water systems. He also developed fundamental physicochemical theories and methods to study environmental and geochemical interfacial reactions (adsorption, flocculation, and nano science). He has a track record in developing multidisciplinary studies in chemical, environmental, ecological, water, and nano areas,ranging from fundamental science to applied engineering.

Environmental pollutants and their transport mechanism;Methodologies in molecular environmental interfacial Science; Environmental nanotechnology

Kenyir Research Institute led by Professor Emeritus Dr. Faizah Binti Mohd Sharoum has established a Centre For Kenyir Ecosystems Research whose role is to conduct research on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Conducted research encompasses the diversity of species, genetics, ecosystems, bio-cultural interactions and the interelations between the four components in the vicinity of Lake Kenyir to the coast. The ecosystems of Kenyir provide ecosystem services that benefit humans and all living organisms. These vital ecosystem services including food security, medicine and environmental conditioning (water and air quality improvement), determine our bio-cultural values. Biodiversity also represents natural capital that contributes to local economies and is inter-dependent on ecosystem services for human well-being. Therefore, an appreciation of the biodiversity around us is crucial.

Parasitology, Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Fish Disease.

Alpina is an ecologist specialised in Fisheries and in Human Ecology, who is researcher at the Training programme and research of small scale fishers (CAPESCA) and Nucleous of Food Studies (NEPA) at UNICAMP, Professor at UNISANTA, and Research Director of Fisheries and Food Institute. With a PhD in ecology and a post doc in ecological economics, Alpina has been researching fisheries of the Atlantic Forest coast and of the Amazon in Brazil for more than 25 years. She studies fisheries on the research themes of ecological models (optimal foraging theory), ethnobiology, reef fisheries and food security. The majority of Alpina's work is carried out in Brazil where she is the principal investigator of the project Ecology and Ethnoecology of dusky groupers (Epinephelus marginatus), a widely distributed species in the Atlantic caught frequently in Brazilian artisanal fisheries where it is a highly prized fish. Currently she is involved in a collaborative project with the University of York, United Kingdom, on technology of small-scale fishers of Maranhão in north-eastern Brazil. In addition to being a member of the ecoSERVICES Scientific Steering Committee, Alpina recently contributed to the work of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper on Fishers’ knowledge and the ecosystem approach to fisheries - Applications, experiences and lessons in Latin America (2015). She was the President of the Society of Human Ecology in 2006-2007, and Executive Director of the Fisheries and Food Institute from 2006-2014.

Fisheries;Human Ecology; technology of small-scale fishers of Maranhã

ANDRZEJ MAMCARZ - Professor of Fisheries, Doctor of Natural Sciences. In 1974 graduated with the award at Faculty of Water Protection & Inland Fisheries, Academy of Agriculture & Technology in Olsztyn. Qualified as Master of Science in Fisheries after defending the master thesis entitled "Distribution of fish fry in Siemiany Bay of Lake Jeziorak". Qualified as D. Sc. in 1983 at the same Faculty after defending doctoral thesis entitled "Variability of biometric features in peled (Coregonus peled Gmelin 1788) during culturing in lake cages". Qualified as Associate Professor in Fisheries in 1991 at Faculty of Marine Fisheries, Szczecin Agricultural University after evaluation scientific activity and defending thesis on "Conditions for growth of Coregonus peled larvae in cage rearing". Professor of Fisheries from 1998. Dean of the Faculty of Water Protection & Inland Fisheries in 1993-1996, Head of Fisheries Department at University of Warmia & Mazury in Olsztyn since 1991, and Department of Lake & River Fisheries to 2009. Member of Editorial Board of Acta Academiae Agriculturae AC Technicae Olstenensis in 1991-1996, Electronic Journal of Polish Agriculture Universities (Fisheries) in 1998-2000, Journal of Aquaculture Engineering and Fisheries Research (2015-actual). Specialised in aquaculture (larviculture) and lake fishery. The author over 400 publications, chapters in books and scripts for students. Published, among others, in Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, Archives of Polish Fisheries, Aquaculture, Aquaculture Engineering, Aquaculture International, Aquaculture Research, Acta Hydrobiologica, Boletin lnstituto Espanol de Oceanografia, Caryologia, Czech Journal of Animal Science, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, European Aquaculture Society Special Publication, Finnish Fisheries Research, ICES Marine Science Symposia, Ichthyological Research, Italian Journal of Animal Science, Italian Journal of Zoology, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Journal of Thermal Biology, Polskie Archiwum Hydrobiologii, Polish Journal of Natural Sciences, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, The Progressive Fish-Culturist, Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Zeitschrift der Binnenfischerei DDR. Among most important publications, are books: “Larviculture of reophilic cyprinid fishes”, Olsztyn 2008, monographies on sichel, dace, asp and burbot, and chapters in books: "Fish Larval Physiology and Biochemistry" (Eds. B. T. Walther & H. J. Fyhn), Bergen, 1993, "Conservation of Endangered Freshwater Fish in Europe" (Eds. A. Kirchhofer & D. Hefti), Basel, 1996, "Fishery-Angling Encyclopedia" (Ed. J. Szczerbowski), Olsztyn,1998, "Genetics in Sustainable Fisheries Management" (Ed. S. Mustafa), Oxford, 1999, "Freshwater Fishes of Poland" (Ed. M. Brylinska), Warsaw, 2001. Journal Referee in Journal of Food Quality, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology, Polish Archives of Hydrobiology, Biuletyn Morskiego Instytutu Rybackiego, Zeszyty Naukowe AR we Wroclawiu, Folia Universitatis Agriculturae Stettinensis, Journal of Applied Ichthyology, Electronic Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities, Polish Journal of Natural Sciences, Archiv fur Hydrobiology, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, North American Journal of Aquaculture, Archives of Polish Fisheries, Acta Academiae Agriculturae AC Technicae Olstenensis, Acta Hydrobiologica, Aquatic Living Resources, Italian Journal of Zoology, Fisheries Management and Ecology. Biograms about Professor Mamcarz are presented in 4th-10th Editions of Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering (New Providence, 1997-2008), in 15th-25th Editions of Marquis Who's Who in the World (New Providence, 1998-2008), in 4-5th Editions of Hubner's Blue Edition "Who is Who in Poland" (Zug, 2005-2006) and in Golden Book of Polish Science (Gliwice, 2005). Professor Mamcarz is the member of European Aquaculture Society (EAS), Polish Hydrobiological Society. Private hobbies: heraldry, genealogy, vexillology, history of geographical discoveries and sea wars, aquarium keeping, computers. The most important life virtues according him are moral courage, truth and loyalty.

Aquaculture (Larviculture); Inland fishery; Lake fishery

Prof. Dr. Yusuf Bozkurt researches deal with conservation of fish gametes, reproductive biology of fish brood stock and also aquaculture of potential new species. He has authored a number of referred articles mainly on cryopreservation of fish semen. In addition, he conducts many research projects in the field of aquaculture cooperating with various freshwater and marine fish farms. His scientific activity in the field of aquaculture was internationally recognized and invited to editorial boards of international peer-review journals. Also, he supervised a number of international and national research projects. In addition, he has been involved Food and Agriculture Cost Action FA 1205.

Conservation of Aquatic Genetic Resources; Cryopreservation Fish Semen; Aquaculture of Freshwater and Marine Fish Species; Brood Stock Management; Induced Spawning of Potentially Important Fish Species.

Prof. Dr. Saleem Mustafa is serving Borneo Marine Research Institute of Universiti Malaysia Sabah. He pursues problem-solving research such as seafood security, aligning various topics of ecological aquaculture with sea ranching and sustainable fisheries. Prof. Saleem has implemented a large number of research projects, successfully guided several post-doctorate theses, and has to his credit an impressive number of published books, monographs, technical reports, and articles in journals and magazines. He is recipient of many national and international awards for innovative research findings in his fields of interest.

Ecological aquaculture

His primary research focus is on fish - physiology, his research examines the interactions of fish with their environment at all levels from the molecular to the ecological. He is particularly interested in the sublethal effects of natural factors (temperature, oxygen, water chemistry, swimming, feeding, social interactions) and anthropogenic pollutants (ammonia & climate change) on organismal function, and their adaptation, metabolic compromising strategies and/or evolution by which animals confront to extreme environments both in captive and wild conditions. Particular projects at present consider fuel usage, nitrogenous waste production, metabolic strategy, hormonal balancing, osmorespiration, ionoregulatory and the kinetics electrolyte transporter or co-transporter in fish challenge to different stressors as model study to understand their adaptability and/or evolutionary in order to establish a sustainable good aquaculture practice and fisheries welfare management. Addition to his personal research interest/hobby is to matching around with living aquatic jewellery (ornamental fish), especially the reef fishes on their interpersonal social interaction, feeding, reproductive behaviour, reproductive performance and their adaptability to environmental change.

Aquaculture, Fish Physiology, ornamental fish

Dr. Marc Verdegem, Ph.D. is a Chief Editor of the journal ‘Aquaculture Research’. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal ‘Aquaculture’. In 1999, he became Lecturer at the Fish Culture and Fisheries Group of Wageningen University. Dr. Verdegem is specialized in ‘aquaculture systems management’ and his research focuses on closed (zero-effluent) aquaculture systems, looking in depth at feeding ecology and microbial processes, and open integrated multitrophic aquaculture systems, elucidating nutrient cycles. Present research deals with recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) resilience for Pangasius culture in Vietnam and Nile tilapia in Malaysia, microbial ecology of RAS, shrimp pond culture in Indonesia and mussel culture in the Dutch North sea. He is also study coordinator of the MSc course ‘Aquaculture and Fisheries’ of Wageningen University and teaches the master course ‘Aquaculture Production Systems’. More than 70 master and 10 Ph.D. students finished their thesis under his supervision. At present, Dr. Verdegem is involved in the daily supervision of five Ph.D. students. He has published more than 90 peer reviewed papers and contributed to numerous reports and presentations at conferences. Until 1998 the focus was on tropical aquaculture development with facility design, training (at vocational and academic level), institution building and curriculum development as major activities. He started his career more than 30 years ago. Dr. Verdegem was involved with the execution, coordination and management of numerous projects in the Caribbean, Central America, Africa and Asia. In 2013, Dr. Verdegem received the highest Wageningen University award for his teaching. He holds a Ph.D. in Marine Sciences with specialization in Aquaculture (University of Puerto Rico).

Aquaculture;Aquaculture and environment;Aquatic ecosystems;Water quality

Professor Dr. Viroj Wiwanitkit is currently working as a medical professor and Asian Scholar. He graduated in medical doctor (M.D). (honors) and works in medical academics in many universities. At present he is appointed as a visiting University Professor, Hainan Medical University, China ; visiting professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nis, Serbia ; adjunct professor, Joseph Ayobabalola University, Nigeria and Professor, Senior Expert, Surin Rajabhat University, Thailand. He has many international publications in medical field. His research interest includes tropical medicine and public health, Laboratory medicine, clinical biochemistry, molecular biology and microbiology. At present, he is the medical scientist who has more than 1,800 article publications and he has the most number (the first world rank) of international publications as the first and the last author. He also serve as editor in chief and editorial board of about 100 international medical journals published from several countries around the world.

tropical medicine,public health, Laboratory medicine, clinical biochemistry, molecular biology and microbiology.

Prof. Dr. Özkan Özden’s background is in seafood quality control, a subject to which he was attracted by its relevance to seafood security and in which he has published over 67 papers and four books. He has many projects on seafood safety and also he has been working at Istanbul University, Faculty of Fisheries for 20 years. He is a Head of Department of Seafood Processing Technology and Safety.

Processing Technology ;seafood safety; Aquaculture

Prof. Suzan Kholeif is an oceanographer, marine geologist and ecologists. She holds a PhD in Marine Geology from Cairo University in 1999. Since 1994, she has been working as a Marine Geologist researcher, professor and consultant in National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Alexandria, Egypt. She is a published author & holds a strong track record of publications which include assessment of coastal waters, shore protection, climate and sea level changes as well as Environment Impact Assessment (EIA). She has gained skills in developing and managing both managerial and technical tasks, as is demonstrated through her work experience in the role of Director of Scientific Documentation and Media Unit at NIOF; Head of marine geology Lab and Director of NIOF, Mediterranean Branch, as well as across several national and international projects in the field of marine environment, Climate changes, Management of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Integrated Coastal Zone Management-ICZM, such as; " assess and predict changes in the Mediterranean and Black Seas ecosystems as part of the FP6 project “SESAME” (2007-2011) ); AQUAMED project (12/03/2010 -12/03/2014); Fisheries and aquaculture-Oriented Research “FORCE" (2011-2014); MEDINA “Marine Dynamic Indicators of North Africa “MEDINA” (2010-2014); Advisory Board member of current FP7 project "Fostering sustainability and uptake of research results through Networking activities in Black Sea & Mediterranean areas “IASON" (2013-214); People for Ecosystem Based Governance in Assessing Sustainable Development of Ocean and Coast “PEGASO” (2010-2013). She also acquired a solid reputation as expert and consultant in marine environment and climate change both at national and international level (eg, EU bodies, UNEP, SME companies, international environment protection organizations,..), especially in the water resources monitoring and planning in Mediterranean countries (particularly in Egypt and North Africa countries) in the last 10 years, by developing guidelines for sustainable use and innovation methodology for management of wild resources, focusing on ecological cycles of the aquatic resources in the Mediterranean.

marine environment, Climate changes, Management of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Dr. Carlos Sanz-Lazaro research has been focused on the ecological consequences of anthropogenic impacts in coastal ecosystems. He had mainly been focused on subtidal benthic ecology but also on intertidal ecology.

environmental impact assessment, aquaculture environment interactions, biogeochemistry, ecotoxicology, global change, and coastal biodiversity

Dr. Said Elshahat Abdallah is working as an Associate Professor of Agricultural Process Engineering, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. He was born on January 6, 1972. He obtained his Ph. D. degree in Technical Sciences in November 2005 from the Faculty of Design, Don State Technical University, Russia. He prepared many scientific literatures such as Engineering of Food Factories and Dairy Plants, Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, introduction to agricultural process engineering, Instrumentation, Properties and Testing of Engineering Materials, Fitting of Curves and Differential Equations and Differentiation & Integration, etc… He published more than twenty research articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He supervised, has done and examined about twenty M. Sc. and Ph. D. dissertations. He participated in several either local or international conferences on the topics of Agricultural Process Engineering. He contributed in the attendance of many meetings, workshops and training courses. He was awarded: Food Engineer of the Year Award – 2010; Excellence Award in International Scientific Publication – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015; Arab Papers Published on Agriculture – 2012; Egypt 25 Foundation Award – 2012; Who's Who in the World – 2013, 2014 and 2015; 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century – 2013; Top 100 Engineers– 2013; International Biographical Center Man of The Year– 2013; Cambridge Certificate for Outstanding Engineering Achievement – 2013 and Cambridge Certificate for Outstanding EducationalAchievement – 2013. He served as: Editor-in-Chief; Associate Editor; Editorial Board Member; Food Expert; Reviewer, etc… in more than four hundred international peer-reviewed journals.

Agricultural Process Engineering; Postharvest Technology; Bioengineering; Food & Dairy Engineering; Agro-Industrial Waste Management; Process and Bioprocess Engineering; Thermal & Non-Thermal Engineering; Agricultural Production Engineering; Postharvest operations Engineering; Composting and Vermicomposting Process; Non-Conventional Forages Processing; Farm Wastes Bioconversion; By-Products Recycling Engineering.

Bahman J. Amiri received his PhD degree in Environmental Dynamics and Modeling from Hiroshima University in Japan. He conducted the first postdoctoral fellowship there and the second on regionalization of hydrological models at Christian Albrecht Universitaet zu Kiel in Germany using landscape approach. His expertise is in field of hydro-environmental modeling and assessment. He is also fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

hydro-environmental modelling,hydro-environmental assessment.

Jitendra Kumar obtained his M.F.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Fisheries Resource Management from Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, College of Fisheries, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India. He was born on February, 1st 1990. He is serving as Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal “Journal of Fisheries and Life Sciences”; General Secretary for the “Society of Fisheries and Life Sciences”; “Fisheries Graduate Welfare Association” and advisory committee member in several Indian and International journals. He has been conferred the numerous prestigious awards viz., Junior Young Scientist Award 2013; COFFA Educational Awards 2014; Young Environmentalist Award 2016 in recognition of his outstanding contributions. He has published more than fifty peer reviewed journal papers, articles, abstracts and co-edited several proceedings of seminars and workshops. He contributed in the attendance of many meetings, workshops and training courses in Indian and abroad. His area of research are Marine Fisheries, Inland Fisheries, Fish Biology, Ichthyofaunal Bio-diversity, Oceanography, Trawl Fisheries, Socio-economic studies, Remote Sensing and GIS in Potential Fishing Zone, Reservoir Fisheries etc.

Marine Fisheries, Inland Fisheries, Fish Biology, Ichthyofaunal Bio-diversity, Oceanography, Trawl Fisheries, Socio-economic studies.