Dr. Ruben Avendaño Herrera Principal Investigator RP2: Animal Health in Early Life Stages of Salmonids and Native Resources

Biografía

Dr. Ruben Avendaño-Herrera is an Aquaculture Engineer with a bachelor’s in marine sciences from Universidad de Antofagasta (1997). He holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the Microbiology and Parasitology program at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2005), and a Post-Doctorate from the Universidad Andrés Bello (2010-2013). From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Rubén Avendaño-Herrera worked as a researcher at the pharmaceutical company Veterquímica Ltda., and in 2010, he joined to Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB). Currently, he is a Full Professor and director of the Laboratory of Pathology of Aquatic Organisms and Aquaculture Biotechnology at UNAB. He is also the Principal Investigator at INCAR.

Dr. Ruben Avendaño-Herrera main research topics include aquaculture pathology, aquatic organisms’ diseases, biotechnological tools applied to aquaculture, standardization of procedures to control and validate the appropriate use of antibiotics, and the development of vaccines against aquatic pathologies. He has authored over 120 articles (mainly indexed by WoS) and 7 book chapters, including one book on infectious diseases in salmon farming in Chile and worldwide. He is also referee for more than 30 international journals and member of the editorial board of Journal of Fish Disease.

Dr. Ruben Avendaño-Herrera has participated in 29 projects (national and international), 17 of them as principal investigator. He has supervised 11 doctoral theses, sponsored postdoctoral researchers, has participated as a committee member for 25 undergraduate theses. He has been part of the Animal Health and Production Committee of FONDECYT and served as its president and is currently a member of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Committee of FONDEF. He is also a member of various evaluation committees for different funds/grants from ANID and a member of the Aquaculture Working Group of CLSI.