Involved Partners

Dr. Guillaume Drillet

Guillaume has been working on project dealing with copepods and aquaculture for more than 10 years. During his Master degree, he was dealing with river plume dilution and its effects on the phytoplankton community of the Gulf of Lions (France), he then moved to Florida State University (USA) in Nancy H. Marcus laboratory where was involved in the development of algae and copepod production for fish larval rearing. Guillaume was then involved in the EU project POCEFF (preservation of copepod eggs for fish farming) and pursued his work at Roskilde University for a few years.

Later on, Guillaume took a PhD granted to Roskilde University and the Technical University of Denmark by the European Network of Excellence (EUR-OCEANS) and the graduate school of stress studies (GESS) on similar subjects. His PhD included a research stay in Scotland in FRS marine laboratory under Prof. Steve Hay where he studied the effects of fishing gears on the sediment and the re-suspension of copepod eggs in the water column. After his PhD Guillaume worked as a project developer for public and private institutions (Roskilde University, FishLab, Akvagroup). He moved to Singapore to work for the DHI ballast water test facilities. Two of the research proposal he worked on were funded, the IMPAQ project from the Danish Strategic Research Council to Benni W. Hansen and DEN-SELECT, a Sapere Aude Post Doctoral grant.

Dr. Mohamed Sofiene Mahjoub

Sofiene is a fisheries engineer who did a PhD on fish larvae feeding behaviour between Taiwan and France. After his degree, he was involved in the project development of an outgrowing fish farm in Tunisia. His expertise is an asset for the success of Den-Select as Sofiene interact daily with Guillaume for DEN-SELECT experimental designs. Sofiene is involved in DEN-SELECT and other DHI project linked to plankton research. He helps Guillaume in carrying out experiment on Acartia tonsa.

Remi Maguet

Remi is a Master trainee from the University of Caen. He was involved in the DEN-SELECT project from April 2011 to September 2011. Because of his skills and understanding of the challenges behind copepod production for aquaculture, DHI-NTU research centre has hired him to pursue research on other project related to plankton and aquaculture.

Prof. Benni W. Hansen

Benni is a Professor at Roskilde University. He has been involved in plankton research since he graduated and has started applying his knowledge to aquaculture issues many years ago. He has been involved in many international projects as a PI. Lately he was granted 20Mio Dkk for the IMPAQ project (alliance) funded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research, the entire project is a 28Mio Dkk alliance involving 12 partners and dealing with copepods and aquaculture, from laboratory scales to large scale cultivation processes, economical evaluation of the use of copepods in aquaculture.

Dr. Claudia Halsband

Claudia is a senior scientist at Akvaplan-niva in Tromsø, Norway, with more than 15 years of international research experience in the field of marine plankton ecology. One of her recent studies focussed on phenotypic variability of copepods and their responses to directional selection on body size. In DEN-SELECT she serves as an external scientific advisor and contributes to the development of selection experiments and analyses in annual project meetings.

Prof. Sami Souissi

Sami is a professor at the University of Lille (France), trained as a modeller he has developed a laboratory with many research dealing with plankton experimental research. In the last few years he has raised more and more interests about copepods and aquaculture. Sami is also part of the IMPAQ project financed by the Danish Council for Strategic Research and has carried out many research jointly with Jiang (see later). For the little story, Sami was the person who directed Guillaume to Roskilde University at the first stage in 2002.

Prof. Jiang-Shiou Hwang

Jiang is a professor at the National Taiwan University,. He holds a PhD from Boston University (UAS) and has been involved in many research project dealing with copepods. His main interests reside in Zooplankton, Aquaculture, Ecology and Behaviour of Copepods, Sensory Biology of Marine Animals, Marine Biology, Ecology of Coral Reefs, Zooplankton Ecology. Jiang is involved in DEN-SELECT in which he will invite Guillaume to Taiwan in order to carry out behaviour studies at high densities; he will also introduce Guillaume to the diverse facilities using copepods in Taiwan. Jiang is also part of the IMPAQ project financed by the Danish Council for Strategic Research.