Giuseppe Lembo is Chairman of COISPA. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of fishery and aquaculture during which he participated and/or coordinated several EU and national research projects in the field of stock assessment, fishery management, fish telemetry and spatial distribution/dynamics, conventional & organic aquaculture, fish behaviour and welfare. During his career, he was member of a number of Scientific Associations, Committees and working groups of several organizations (e.g. Italian Ministry of Agriculture Policy, Italian Society of Marine Biology – SIBM, European Commission, European Aquaculture Society - EAS, Food and Agriculture Organization – FAO, International Federation of Organic Movement – IFOAM). He is currently the chair of the Expert Group for Technical advice on the Organic Production (EGTOP) of the European Commission.
Elena Mente is a Professor of aquatic animal nutrition and physiology at the University of Thessaly in Greece and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen in the UK. She was awarded a Training and Mobility Researchers Postgraduate Fellowship aiming at PhD research in crustacean physiology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Her research interests lie mainly in aquaculture and nutrition of aquatic animals. Her publications include edited volumes, books and chapters in books (15) and more than 60 research papers in many peer-reviewed journals as co-author/author. She has cooperated with more than 20 research teams in different countries through national, bi-lateral and EU funded projects. She currently serves in the Editorial team of 5 well-respected peer-reviewed scientific journals and she is associate editor in the Journal of Crustacean Biology. She is actively involved in several research projects supported by the European Commission and by the aquaculture industry.