Seafood Technologies
Dr Leonardo Magnoni
Senior Scientist
I am a senior scientist in the Fish Physiology and Behavior team, specializing in seafood production and open ocean aquaculture. My current research focuses on fish performance, particularly concerning nutrition, growth, and welfare indicators in cultured finfish species, which includes their behavior and health. My goal is to support the aquaculture industry by improving both production efficiency and fish welfare. I am a trained fish physiologist and earned my PhD in Biology from the University of Ottawa in Canada in 2008. Since then, I have conducted research at various European institutions, using several finfish species as experimental models. These institutions include CIIMAR at the University of Porto, the University of Barcelona, Ifremer in Palavas, the University of Murcia, IATS-CSIC in Torre de la Sal, and Wageningen University Research. In 2021, I joined Plant & Food Research in New Zealand. My expertise lies in understanding how environmental factors and diets influence fish physiology and behavior. I utilize a wide range of methodologies, including fish tracking, biologging, aquatic respirometry, and metabolic tracers at the whole organism level. Additionally, I employ biochemistry, metabolomics, transcriptomics analysis, and cellular models to integrate the knowledge and answer relevant questions in this field.