Sissel Albrektsen
PhD
Senior Scientist
I am a fish nutritionist and work as senior scientist at Nofima. My main research areas are fish nutrition and processing of marine raw materials. I have scientific background in micro nutrients (vitamins, minerals), and have extensive work on phosphorus nutrition in Atlantic salmon and Atlantic cod. Scientific experience involve developing and evaluation of new fish feed ingredients from fish bones (mineral and collagen rich ingredients), and exploring of novel bioactive compounds (i.e. watersoluble compounds, herbs) with potential added value properties related to improved growth, health and quality of farmed salmon. Research activities have included utilization of alternative feed ingredients, pigment utilization, mineral nutrition, process technology, and characterization of low-molecular watersoluble compounds, their bioactivity and beneficial functional use in feed for salmon.
I graduated as PhD candidate in fish nutrition at the University of Bergen (1994). I also have a Master of Science degree in fish nutrition from the University of Bergen (1988). Previous work experience is product developer and researcher in EWOS Innovation (1995-1997), researcher in SSF (1997-2002) and senior scientist in Fiskeriforskning (2002-2008) before the establishment of Nofima in 2008.
