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During my master study Biology I got interested in aquaculture. The fact that I could apply general biological principles to produce seafood provided a sense of purpose which I could not find in pure biology. At that time, aquaculture was an emerging food production sector. I was very quickly convinced that with time aquaculture would become more important than capture fisheries (which is actually happening now in 2015). Today, aquaculture is a necessary and still rapidly growing type of food production which continuously ventures into uncharted territory. While doing so, aquaculture is in need of scientific consolidation and innovation.
I started my aquaculture career in 1979, preparing myself to develop a 4.5-ha fish and 2-ha oyster farm in Haiti for a Belgian development cooperation program. From a development point of view, this work was highly successful. Today, more than 30 years later, the fish farm still provides a livelihood to >20 families. Nevertheless, for most production problems that I faced clear-cut biological answers were lacking. Therefore, I decided to strengthen my biological background by taking up a PhD study. I selected the Marine Sciences PhD program at the University of Puerto Rico because it included specialized aquaculture courses, while it was constructing a new outdoor aquaculture research facility. I was the first researcher working in these facilities.
Immediately upon PhD graduation, in September 1987, I became project coordinator at the Aquaculture and Fisheries Group of Wageningen University. My responsibility was to manage international projects for the chair group, which were initially mostly funded through the “Directoraat Generaal voor Internationale Samenwerking (DGIS)”. I organized and supervised project management and project staff, while continuously developing and obtaining funds for new projects. Little by little, DGIS reduced funding of academic cooperation programs, so gradually other financing sources were addressed, mainly EC. This was a self-funding position, which besides mine and project-staff positions also funded 2 permanent scientific staff at AFI. The nature of the work became gradually less development and more research oriented. I also took up a part-time postdoc position in 1997.
In 2000 I was asked to develop research and teaching on ‘Aquaculture Production Systems’ for the Aquaculture and Fisheries group, building further on my postdoc research. I developed a new research line on pond ecology for aquaculture, and consolidated a course on aquaculture production systems. Initially, I worked very applied, targeting to optimize input nutrient efficiencies in aquaculture ponds. Over the years, while deepening my understanding of basic processes affecting system performance, my research became more fundamental, focusing on to the role of microbiota in maintaining a functional food web and healthy fish, the latter by looking mainly at fish gut – system interactions. I have presently 86 manuscripts listed in Web of Sciences, which were cited on average 15.59 times. In Scopus my h-index is 24. In 2015, my work was cited 249 time (date 29 December 2015)
In 2008, I became study advisor, working one day a week for the OWI. Initially, I was responsible for the MSc Aquaculture and Fisheries, which was in 2011 broadened into MSc Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management. I am also editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed Wiley journal Aquaculture Research, which publishes annually ± 200 manuscripts out of > 900 submissions. I am also editorial board member of the peer reviewed Elsevier journals ‘Aquaculture’ and ‘Aquacultural Engineering’.
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REVIEWS IN AQUACULTUREno. 2 (2024): 656-673
Aquaculturepp.741396, (2024)
Aquacultural Engineering (2024): 102437
Morgina Akter, Johan W. Schrama, Uttam Adhikary, Md. Sajjad Alam,Mohammad Mamun-Ur-Rashid,Marc Verdegem
Aquaculture (2024): 741342
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AQUACULTURE (2023): 739964-739964
Youssra M. El-Ouny,Sahya Maulu,Mohamed A. A. Zaki,Amira A. Helaly,Abdel Aziz M. Nour, Mohammed F. ElBasuini,Eman M. H. Labib,Riad H. Khalil,Ali H. Gouda, Amira A. A. Hessein,Marc Verdegem,Hala S. Khalil
AQUACULTURE REPORTS (2023): 101518-101518
Aquaculture Reports (2023): 101788
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#Papers: 300
#Citation: 9597
H-Index: 46
G-Index: 77
Sociability: 6
Diversity: 1
Activity: 2
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