2024 Participant Workshop

Alberto Galdos Ispizua

2024-08-07T11:50:06+10:00April 19th, 2023|

Alberto is a Civil Engineer with more than 18 years’ experience in the design of major transport and energy infrastructures. Throughout his career, he has held several senior engineering and executive positions within Saitec Group, currently being the head of [...]

Veronica Papacosta

2024-05-21T16:52:11+10:00May 10th, 2023|

Veronica is the CEO of Seafood Industry Australia (SIA), Managing Director of Sydney Fresh Seafood (Aust) Pty Ltd, a member of the Agriculture Industry Advisory Council, a member of the National Fisheries Advisory Council, and a passionate advocate for the [...]

Brighid Jay

2025-05-19T11:06:36+10:00May 2nd, 2023|

With 15 years of experience in the energy sector, Brighid Jay serves as Carnegie Clean Energy’s Chief Commercial Officer. She joined Carnegie in 2011, after studying and working in the USA and Scotland, including several years at the University of [...]

Hossein Agheshlui

2025-04-07T09:18:44+10:00May 29th, 2024|

Hossein is a Principal Offshore Wind Engineer at BMT with over 16 years of industry and research experience. He holds a PhD in structural engineering and an MSc in Offshore Structures Engineering. He was also a researcher and lecturer at [...]

Louise Bruce

2025-05-21T19:31:45+10:00June 22nd, 2023|

Louise is a Senior Principal Engineer with over 25 years’ experience in environmental modelling and data analytics. Louise’s career has spanned the progression of environmental models from simple mass balance to complex process based ecosystem models. Louise is a core [...]

Dr Nick Elliott

2024-05-22T11:37:01+10:00April 19th, 2023|

Dr Nick Elliott has extensive marine and aquaculture research and industry knowledge, experience and achievements built through his 33-year career at CSIRO. He is internationally recognised for his research leadership, education and management. A PhD graduate from the University of [...]

Alick Osborne

2024-05-21T16:54:01+10:00May 9th, 2023|

Alick Osborne has been CEO of Seasol International since 2015. Seasol International was acquired by Dulux Group (Australia) Pty Ltd in April 2023. Alick has a background in agricultural commodity trading and processing covering grains, oilseeds and sugar. He is [...]

Craig Johnson

2024-07-02T11:05:18+10:00August 3rd, 2023|

Craig Johnson is a Research Professor at IMAS. He was Head of the Ecology & Biodiversity Centre, and Associate Director, at IMAS for 10 years (2010-2019) before taking the role of inaugural Executive Director of Innovation & Enterprise at UTAS [...]

Brian Von Herzen

2024-05-21T16:54:32+10:00August 15th, 2023|

Brian Von Herzen Ph.D. is the founder and executive director of the Climate Foundation, which upholds the vision and the mission to regenerate life in the ocean using Marine Permaculture technology. As Executive Director, Brian leads Climate Foundation’s large-scale seaweed [...]

Crispian Ashby

2024-05-27T11:37:34+10:00May 27th, 2024|

Crispian joined the FRDC in February 2002, starting as a Project Manager before taking over as the Program Manager in June 2005. Formerly with Victoria's Marine and Freshwater Resources Institute as a senior field scientist, he worked with industry on [...]

Ryan Lowe

2024-05-21T16:43:53+10:00January 16th, 2024|

I joined UWA in 2007, after completing a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2005 from Stanford University and following a postdoctoral research and lecturing position at Stanford. Between 2012-2016, I received an ARC Future Fellowship that focused on [...]

Kylie Pitt

2024-05-21T16:50:48+10:00August 3rd, 2023|

Kylie is a marine ecologist and professor at Griffith University, with specialist expertise in the ecology of jellyfishes. Her research focuses on understanding the population dynamics of jellyfishes from local to global scales and their responses to changing ocean conditions. [...]

Dr Sarah Ugalde

2025-05-18T19:56:51+10:00October 17th, 2023|

Sarah Ugalde is the Recreational Fishing Navigator for Futures of Seafood. Ph.D is an academic, enabler, and supporter of multidisciplinary and international projects and experiences relating to aquaculture and fisheries. As a Research Fellow at the Institute for Marine and [...]

Dr Rodney Thomson

2024-07-03T11:41:41+10:00May 22nd, 2024|

Dr Rodney Thomson in Engineering Manager at ACS Australia and has over 25 years of experience in the design and implementation of composite structures for aerospace, maritime, land transport and energy applications. He is an internationally recognised expert specialising in [...]

Chavelli Sulikowski

2024-06-03T21:14:18+10:00May 29th, 2024|

Chavelli leads Aquaculture and Emerging Marine Industries at NRE Tasmania. The role sees Chavelli and her team providing high quality technical and policy advice to Government on sustainable planning, development and management of existing and emerging fisheries and aquaculture industries. [...]

Sean Riley

2025-05-22T14:45:31+10:00May 29th, 2024|

Sean has over 33 years of experience in a range of scientific research and natural resource management roles within government and industry organisations. Most of his career has been devoted to sustainable resource management and planning roles within Australia’s seafood [...]

Dr John Whittington

2025-05-08T15:21:50+10:00April 19th, 2023|

Dr John Whittington is the current CEO of Salmon Tasmania. John has a PhD in algal physiology from the University of Adelaide and has postdoctoral experience at Universities in Australia and the USA, and with the CRC for Freshwater [...]

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