Collaboration
for greater scientific impact
Advisory Board
Balancing internal cohesion with external advice is vital for any project's growth and success, hence AQUASERV has two internal and two external boards.
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1. For a strong internal structure
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The Executive Committee is a team that ensures our project's work plan is on track and is led by the coordinator, Centro de Ciências do Mar do Algarve, and the rest of the work packages co-leaders.
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The General Assembly, on the other hand, is our top decision-making group, with representatives from all our project partners.
2. For advancing with external insights
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To receive external advice, we have both the Scientific and Technical Advisory Board, composed by experts and industry representatives to provide advice on how to operate and suggest big-picture strategies, and the Ethics Advisory Board, which will check our projects for ethical concerns and offer general ethical guidance.
Our Scientific and Technical Advisory Board
Alex David Rogers
REV Ocean,
University of Oxford
Professor and Director of Science, REV Ocean; Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford; Visiting Professor, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford. Ecologist who investigates what structures biodiversity in marine ecosystems. Special interests in the deep sea, particularly seamounts, cold-water corals, chemosynthetic ecosystems, and shallow water and mesophotic tropical coral reef ecosystems.
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Sebastian Villasante
University of Santiago de Compostela
Professor of Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Director of the EqualSea Lab, researches ocean sustainability and dietary impacts. He is an ERC Consolidator Grant recipient. He serves as Coordinating Lead Author for the IPBES Global Transformative Change Assessment and Co-Chair of the PECS Program on Ocean Equity.
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Jeanette Hammer Andersen
Arctic University of Norway (UiT)
Professor at The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) heading the natural products platform Marbio and CEO of KinSea biotechnology start-up company developing marine bioactive compounds into pharmaceutically active products.
Leonidas Papaharisis
Hellenic Aquaculture Producers Organization, Avramar Aquaculture S.A.
Member of the Hellenic Aquaculture Producers Organization Technical Committee and Director of Quality Assurance and Sustainability at Avramar Aquaculture S.A.
Associate Professor at the Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva and Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences. Research on the genetic diversity of foraminifera and other groups of eukaryotes to better understand their evolution and help use them as bio-indicators of past and present environmental changes.
Our Ethics Advisory Board
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Felicity Huntingford
University of Glasgow
Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Research interests include aggression in fish and welfare. She has been an advisor on the ethics of fish experimentation for Aquaexcel projects.
Amber Scholz
Leibniz Institute DSMZ
Head of Science Policy & Internationalization Department at the Leibniz-Institut DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures. Experienced at international science policy and biological research management, including the Access and Benefit Sharing framework.