Dr. Silvia Torrecillas (Barcelona 1979), I am research member of the the Aquaculture Research Group of the ECOAQUA University Institute at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). I obtained my PhD degree at the ULPGC (2011; European PhD mention, Extraordinary PhD Award in Sciences). My first studies as postdoctoral researcher were as industrial post-doc at Alltech Ireland (2012-2014). Later I joined back the ULPGC as competitive postdoctoral researcher (2014-2017) and I was Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación researcher at the FPCT-ULPGC from 2017-2019. Nowadays, I am research member of the EU AquaIMPACT project and I participate in several GIA services of the PCTM. To the date, I have directed 2 PhD thesis and 3 end-of-master projects. I am currently supervising a PhD thesis and collaborating in several applied studies with different companies of the sector.  

I have experience in fish nutrition and health, particularly on the reinforcement of the fish mucosal health by use of dietary functional feed additives. The applied approach of this research line allowed me to develop a well stablished academic-industry networking. From 2010, The 70% of my 47 authored articles belong to the first quartile (Q1) of its respective area (JCR), with an h-index of 18, a total of 1373 cites by 951documents and average of 193 cites/year in 5 last years (SCOPUS). I have more than 75 contributions to international symposia and congresses. I participated as research team member in several competitive National projects (PROINMUNOIL, PROIMUNOIL+, SABE, JACUMAR) and some competitive European funded projects (ARRAINA, AQUAIMPACT, DIVERSIFY, AQUAEXCELL, ECOAQUA) and established 15 R&D trials agreements with several International feed additives and fish feed companies (6 as IP, 6 Co-IP). I am a member of the review editorial panel of Frontiers in Physiology and I am reviewer of more than 15 fish nutrition and health related journals. I have participated in the organization of several symposiums such as the International Symposium in Fish Nutrition and Feeding 2018 and the 3rd International Conference on Fish & Shellfish Immunology. I am accredited by ANECA as profesor contratado doctor and private university professor since 2018. I actively participate in final national and european master and PhD thesis committees since 2011.

I had to maternity leaves periods along the last 7 years, the first one in 2015 and the second one in 2020.

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