With depleting fish stocks and aggravating impacts of climate change, new approaches are needed to ensure food security and sustainability of fish production. The Climaqua project addresses this issue by investigating novel techniques for nutrient recirculation in aquaculture. In your thesis at DIL within the Climaqua project, you will be able to help this effort by performing life cycle assessment of the proposed system. This way you can show if it is indeed possible to reduce climate and other environmental impacts by nutrient recirculation in aquaculture, for instance using algae. Analytical and mathematical thinking as well as capability to work in an international team will be necessary to achieve this. In turn, you will be able to experience a diverse range of tasks in a motivated, international team.

The Climaqua project aims to improve the sustainability of global food production by developing concepts for nutrient recycling within Aquaculture systems. But to make an impact, such a system needs to be feasible from an economic point of view. With your thesis at DIL, you will make a contribution by analysing the costs and Benefits of nutrient recirculation along the whole life cycle. Your work will involve analysis of the different cost and benefit factors to demonstrate if and how a system using algae to recirculate nutrients in aquaculture can be economically feasible. You can look forward to diverse and challenging tasks in an international, motivated and supportive team.