Tiago Lopes
PhD student, GIFAS
Tiago Lopes is a marine biologist from Portugal, working in Gildeskal Forskningstasjon (GIFAS), Norway, where he will begin his industrial PhD involving Skretting, Akvaplan Niva and Nord University. His drive is the welfare improvement of aquaculture species. Having worked in aquaculture nutrition during his BSc in biology, Tiago undertook a MSc specialization in aquaculture, where he researched Atlantic salmon immunonutrition and found GIFAS. There he learned the lumpfish welfare challenges, which resulted in an Industrial PhD plan with the ultimate goal of improving lumpfish welfare through nutrition.