Abdel-Wahab Kamil
National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Egypt
Biography
Prof. Dr. Abdel-Wahab Kamel is expert in microalgae mass production at the Marine Invertebrates Lab, Aquaculture Division of the National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF). He has thirty years in experience in economic culture media, low cost technique with reduced production cost of different microalgae species. He mainly concern on reduce of production cost of economical algal species, like Spirulina, Dunaliella and Chlorella. He interested in microalgae isolation, optimum growth conditions, mass production and the utilization of microalgae as live food for invertebrates larval feeding. He has earned his B.Sc. degree in 1974 in Agriculture Science, El-Mansoura University; M.Sc., 1985, in the field of Aquatic Plant, El-Zagazig University, and the Ph.D., 1991, on Phytoplankton, El-Zagazig University. He participated as PI, team leader, in national project under the title (The Development Methods of Mass Production of Natural Food, Phytoplankton), funded from NIOF 2015-2016. He participated as Co-PI in national project under the title The (Biodiesel and Protein Concentrate Production from Marine Microalgae), funded from NIOF 2014-2015. He worked in many national project all dealt with microalgae mass production, low cost techniques. He is a supervisor on many theses in Egypt and published a valuable scientific paper.