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Bengt Finstad
Position:    Scientific Advisor

  Telephone: +47 934 66 784
  E-mail: bengt.finstad@ntnu.no
 Department:  NINA laksefisk

Key qualifications

Ecophysiology, aquaculture, smoltproduction/releases of fish, pollution and other human impacts, salmonids in sea, fish diseases-parasites, biotelemetry.

Education

  • 1990: Doctor scientiarum (Ph.D)
  • 1986: Candidatus scientiarum (M.Sc)
  • 1984: Candidatus magisterii (B.Sc)

Experience
  • 29.07.1991-present: Senior scientist, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
  • 01.11.1997 to 15.09.1998: Assistant scientific leader at NINA.
  • From 29.07.1991 I got a position as Senior scientist at NINA.
  • 10.01.1991 to 09.07.1991: Scientist, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , Trondheim.
  • 01.09.1986-05-07.1990 - Dr. scient-stipendium.

Training

2 days course in project administration, Songli, 1994 and a 3 days course in laboratory animal science (FELASA, Category C, Researcher), Oslo 1998. External examiner (censor) at the University of Nordland, Bodø, at the Norwegian Fishery College, University of Tromsø and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.

Languages

Norwegian, English, German

Worked in

Canada, Scotland, Russia

Professional societies

  • Member of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles and the Norwegian Zoological Association
  • 2001-2006: Adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
  • 2009 - 2020: Member of the Norwegian Scientific Advisory Commitee for Atlantic salmon
  • Contributing editor for the journal Aquaculture Environment Interactions

Publications:

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

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