Business trip report, Netherlands, Roy
Dr. Koushik Roy, Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Nutrition at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, successfully completed a six-month sabbatical as a Visiting Scientist at the Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands. The sabbatical was funded through the Visiting Scientist Fellowship Scheme of the Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences (WIAS), secured by Dr. Roy. This sabbatical, running from July to December 2024, was supported by the FFPW USB as part of its career advancement initiative. A summary of his activities in sabbatical is listed in the table below.
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S. No. |
Type |
Particulars |
Role of AFI/ WIAS |
Destination |
Status |
|
1. |
Article |
Scoping review connecting freshwater ponds and multitrophic aquaculture to EU circular bioeconomy and food systems |
Co-author |
Reviews in Aquaculture (Wiley) |
Accepted |
|
2. |
Article |
Opinion connecting Nutrition and Ecology, with a novel concept “Rings of Power” to control nutrient cycles in global food webs |
Acknowledgement |
Nature Water |
Under review |
|
3. |
International conference |
Invited lecture in a special session; presented a biomolecules view of pond food web and balanced pond feeding concept for pond aquaculture |
Secondary affiliation |
AQUA2024, Copenhagen Denmark |
Presented (Oral presentation) |
|
4. |
Project |
Submitted a VENI pre-proposal |
Co-author |
NWO ENW panel |
Rejected |
|
5. |
Project |
OPAL stage-2 proposal and associated data, analytics (with ANU chair group) |
Partner |
H2020 |
Under review |
|
6. |
Pedagogical activity |
Revision of WorldFish project manuscript (commissioned by dr. Marc C.J. Verdegem) |
Inviter |
Aquaculture (Elsevier) |
Done |
|
7. |
Pedagogical activity |
Consultation to Ph.D. students of dr. Marc C.J. Verdegem working on ponds and nutritious pond diet in Biofloc |
Inviter |
Ph.D. thesis |
Done |
|
8. |
Pedagogical activity |
Ph.D. proposal review (invited by dr. Johan Schrama) |
Inviter |
Ph.D. thesis |
Done |
|
9. |
Pedagogical activity |
Lecture: Nutritional Requirement of Ponds |
Secondary affiliation |
AFI internal staff and students |
Done |
|
10. |
Pedagogical activity |
Lecture: Nutritional Ecology of European Fishponds |
Secondary affiliation |
WUR Masters’ students |
Done |
|
11. |
Experiment |
Pond experiments in Czechia – season 2023 data and season 2024 experiment with key personnel (Verdegem, Wiegertjes, Gerrits, Veldkamp, Schrama) |
Consultant |
Future articles |
In process |
|
12. |
Training |
Orientation to food system definition, terminologies, and methodologies by providing lectures to study – various staff (van Riel, Wiegertjes). Faecal characteristics methods in fish (Satya Prakash). |
Teacher |
Knowledge |
Done |
|
13. |
Collaboration |
A future MSCA project of candidate’s wife Dr. Deepali Rahi Roy with NIOO-KNAW (Dr. Melissah Rowe) will involve personnel from WUR-AFI (Wiegertjes, Kokou, Menno – CARUS) |
Collaborator |
Future project implementation (2026-2027) |
Scheduled |
|
14. |
Special issue |
Special issue proposal “Pond fish and food web nutrition” (Roy, Verdegem, Gatlin III, Jan-Lock) |
Co-author |
Aquaculture Nutrition (Wiley) |
Accepted |
