CV - Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

First name Surname
Pascal Divanach
Personal information
Address: Institute of Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre of Marine Research, P.O.Box 2214, Iraklion, Crete 71003, Greece
Telephone: +30 2810337766
Fax: +30 2810241882
E-mail: divanach@her.hcmr.gr
Nationality:
French
Date of Birth: 2 November 1949
Gender:
Male
Personal skills and competences
Languages
Mother tongue : French
Understanding Speaking Writing
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Spanish Fluent Fluent Fluent
Greek Good Good Medium
Education and training
1985: Ph.D. 2 (Doctorat ès Sciences) in Biology. University of Sciences & Techniques of Languedoc, Montpellier II, France. (under Professor Jean
Paris).
Dissertation title: Contribution to Biology and rearing of six Mediterranean Sparids: Sparus aurata, Diplodus sargus, Diplodus vulgaris,
Diplodus annularis, Lithognathus mormyrus, Puntazzo puntazzo (Teleostean fishes). 479 p. (in French)
1978: Ph.D.1 (Doctorat de 3ème Cycle) in Oceanology. University of Aix-Marseille II, Luminy, France. (Under Professor Jean Marie Pérès).
Dissertation title: Conditions for application and depuration value of froth flottation and foaming in intensive marine aquaculture. 133p.
(in French)
1974: M.Sc. (Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies - D.E.A.) in Oceanology, University of Aix-Marseille II, Luminy, France.
Thesis title: Live prey and potential food chains for aquaculture. 35 p. (In French)
1973: B.Sc. (Maitrise) in Animal Biology. University of Orsay, Paris VI, France.
SCIENTIFIC IDENTITY
Professional Scientific Experience
(2005-Current). Director, Institute of Aquaculture. Hellenic Center of Marine Research (HCMR). Member, HCMR Board of Directors
(2003-2005). Acting Head, Institute of Aquaculture, Hellenic Center of Marine Research
(1997-1998). President, Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (IMBC)
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(1994-2003). Research Director, Head, Aquaculture Department- Institute of Marine Biology of Crete. Member, IMBC Scientific Advisory Board
(SAB).
(1987-1994). Creation and co- direction (with Prof M. Kentouri), Aquaculture Department, IMBC.
(1983-1987). Leader, Member R & D Aquaculture programs (Station of Aquaculture, Palavas les Flots. France). Secretary of GIS-ARM (Grouping of
Scientific Interest - Mediterranean Region), IFREMER, University of Montpellier II, France.
(1976-1977). National Service Scientist, Hydrographic Service, French Navy, Department of Bathymetry (E.P.S.H.O.M.- Brest, France.)
(1974-1983). Participation in and coordination of Applied Marine Biology and Aquaculture R & D Projects (Station de Biologie Marine et Lagunaire
de Sète - University of Montpellier II, France)
Participation in Research Projects ( since 2000)
2006-2008. Research Infrastructure upgrade of HCMR Institute of Aquaculture. Action 4.5.1. E.P.A.N. GRST. Infrastructure Support for the long term
viability of Research projects, Technological Development and Demonstration.(Coordinator)
2006-2008. Aquaculture Institute Infrastructure up-grade for execution of the 2006-2008 Business plan. Action 3.3.1 EPAN GRST Research Institute
Excellence. (Coordinator)
2003-2006. Min Dev- GRST. 6th plan Optimization of Production Methods For Mediterranean Marine Finfish Aquaculture
2003-2006. Min Dev- GRST. 6th plan. Technology of Production: Development of nutritional products for Mediterranean reared fish species.
2003-2005. CEE-DG12. "REPRO DOTT QLRT 2001 01355". Reproduction of the Blue-fin Tuna in captivity - Feasibility study for the domestication of
Thunnus thynnnus.
2003-2004. CEE-DG 16 Reg. Crete. "INNOMAR". Exploitation of marine biological resources with innovative methodologies.
2000-2003. CEE-DG 12 AIR (Q5RS-2000-31629) COLORED. Environmental, nutritional and neuroendocrine regulation of skin coloration in the red
porgy (Pagrus pagrus), towards the development of natural hue in cultured populations.
2001-2004. CEE-DG 12 AIR QLRT- 2000-01233 "O.R.C.I.S.". Optimization of rearing conditions in sea bass for eliminated lordosis and improved
muscle-skeletal growth
2001-2004. CEE-DG 12 AIR PRO BASS. Improving production efficiency of sea bass farming by developing methodologies to eliminate
environmental androgenesis
2000-2006. Marine Research Laboratory Infrastructures- 2th subproject- Supply and installation of seawater management systems. Regional
Operation Program. Crete,Greece (Coordinator).
1999-2000. Min Dev-GSRT "Ichtyodialogias" Optic device for selection and counting of fish.
1998 - 2002 - CEE DG 16 INTERRACT. Inter Regional Action For Technology Transfer.
1998-2000. Min Agr-PESCA PHOTO BIO Development of solar photobioreactor for hyperintensive culture of microalgae in Crete.
Previous participation in 67 R. T. D. projects
Participation in Commitees, Conferences, Workshops (since 2000)
(2008) Expert Contributor, FEUFAR (Future of European Fisheries and Aquaculture Research), Expert and Stakeholder Workshop IV, 17-18
June 2008 Iraklion, Crete - Greece
(2008) Member, General Assembly Meeting EFARO (European Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Organisation). 26-29 May 2008 La Grande
Motte-France
(2008) Expert contributor, Aquaculture Task Force Meeting EFARO. 10 march 2008 Schipol-Amsterdam. The Netherlands.
(2007) Participant, 1ères Journées de la Recherche Filière Piscicole (IFREMER organisator), 03-04 July 2007 Paris. France
(2007) Member, VIIIth meeting (annual Directors) New EFARO Association. 07-12 May 2007. Warnemunde, Germany
(2007) Participant, EATP (European Aquaculture Technological Platforms). First Stakeholder Meeting, 22 march 2007, Brussels, Belgium
(2006) Member, XVIth, Annual Directors Meeting EFARO, 30 May Reykjavik, Iceland
(2006) Participant, AQUA 2006, 09-13 May 2006, Florence, Italy
(2006) Participant, Fast fish Meeting, 01-05 February 2006, La Rochelle, France
(2005) Member, 15th Annal Directors Meeting EFARO, 18-21 May 2005 Renesse, Zeeland, The Netherlands
(2005) Invited speaker VIth EFARO Technical Workshop Diversification in Aquaculture with the title Specific Diversitfication in Mediterranean Finfish
Mariculture. Budapest, Hungary
(2005) Fast fish Meeting
(2004) Member 14th Annual directors meeting EFARO 13-15 May 2004, Galway, Ireland
(2003) Chairman session 2 New species in Aquaculture, PROFET Workshop. RTD needs in Mediterranean fish farming Athens, Greece 30-31 may 2003 (O
Invited Speaker with the title New species in the Mediterranean - Dream or reality.
(2003) 7 th Panhellenic Symposium on Oceanography and Fisheries, 6 – 9 May 2003. Chersonisos – Crete - Greece
Speaker with the title Rearing of the Dentex Dentex dentex (Sparidae)
(2003) Participant 11 th National Conference of Ichthyologists Panhellinic, Greece, Preveza, 10 - 13 April 2003
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(2002) Chairman session New species in Aquaculture. Aquaculture Europe 2002, 16-19 October 2002, Trieste, Italy Invited Speaker with the title
New species in the Mediterranean.
(2002) Participant 1 st International Congress on Aquaculture, Fisheries Technology and Environmental Management. 8-10 June 2002, ECEP Expo Centre, A
(2002) participant 10 th International Symposium on Nutrition and Feeding of Fish, 1-7 June 2002, Rhodos, Greece
(2001) participant, Seminar of the CIHEAM network on Socio-economic and legal aspects of aquaculture in the mediterranean (SELAM) CIHEAM-
FAO- EU concerted action MASMANAP (Saragoza, Spain 21-22 June 2001
(2000) Participant 9 th National Conference of Ichthyologists Panhellinic, Greece, Mesolongi, 20 - 23 January 2000.
Patents
Kapantagakis A., Divanach P., Papandroulakis N., Tsimenidis N., Kentouri M., 1997. Fish aggregating trapping device. Greek patent O.B.I., No
970100461 (In Greek).
Divanach P., Kentouri M., 1991. Push action device for activation of self feeders in fish culture Greek patent OBI No 910100493. (in Greek)
Divanach P., Kentouri M., 1991. Pull-string device for activation of self feeders in fish culture. Greek patent O.B.I. N0 910100492 (In Greek)
Tesseyre C., Divanach P., Kentouri M., 1978: Process for fish rearing, product and device. French patent (Brevet d'Invention) 78.34803, Agence
Nationale pour la Valorisation de la Recherche (ANVAR), France (in French)
Divanach P., 1976: Process for water depuration in aquaculture tanks. French patent (Brevet d'Invention) 76.31474, ANVAR, France (in French)
Divanach P., Barnabé G., 1976. Process and device for depuration of water. French patent (Brevet d'Invention) 76.27620, ANVAR, France (in
French).
Selected Research Publications (Magazines, Newspapers, Books, Special Editions ,etc)
Chapters of scientific books
Muller-Feuga A., Robert R., Cahu C., Robin J., Divanach P., 2003. Chapter 7. Uses of microalgae in aquaculture. 253-299. In "Live feeds in marine
aquaculture", J. Stottrup and L.A. McEvoy Ed., Blakwell Publ., 305 p.
Divanach P., & al.1997. Microalgues marines: les enjeux de la recherche. Chapitre alimentation. A. Muller-Feuga Ed. IFREMER Publ. 35 p.
Divanach P., Kentouri M., 1990 Larval rearing in Extensive conditions. In Aquaculture Vol. 2.10 G. Barnabé Coordinator. Ed. Lavoisier Publ., 2nd
ed., Vol. 2, 821-832.
Divanach P., Kentouri M., 1989. Elevage larvaire en conditions extensives. In Aquaculture, G. Barnabé Coordinator. Ed. Lavoisier Publ., 1st ed., Vol.
2, 911-928
Selected representative publications
Papandroulakis N., Suquet M., Spedicato M.T., Machias A., Fauvel C., Divanach P,. 2004. Feeding rates, growth performance and gametogenesis
of wreck fish (Polyprion americanus) kept in captivity. Aquaculture International. 12: 395-407.
Papandroulakis N., Kentouri M., Maingot E., Divanach P., 2004. Mesocosm: A reliable technology for larval rearing of Diplodus puntazzo and
Diplodus sargus. Aquaculture International. 12: 345-355.
Papandroulakis N., Papaioannou D., Divanach P., 2002. An automated feeding system for intensive hatcheries. Aquacultural Engineering. 26 (1):
13-26.
Papandroulakis N., Divanach P., Kentouri M., 2002. Enhanced biological performance of intensive sea bream (Sparus aurata) larviculture in the
presence of phytoplankton with long photophase. Aquaculture 204: 45-63.
Koumoundouros G., Pavlidis M., Anezaki L., Kokkari C., Sterioti A., Divanach P., Kentouri M., 2002. Temperature sex determination in the European
Sea Bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (L., 1758) (Teleostei, Perciformes, Moronidae): Critical sensitive ontogenetic phase. Journal of Experimental
Zoology. Vol. 292: 573-579.
Papandroulakis N., Divanach P., Anastasiadis P., Kentouri M., 2001. The pseudo-green water technique for intensive rearing of sea bream (Sparus
aurata) larvae. Aquaculture International 9: 205-216.
Koumoundouros G., Divanach P., Kentouri M., 2001. The effect of rearing conditions on development of saddleback syndrome and caudal fin
deformities in Dentex dentex (L.) Aquaculture, 200, 285-304.
Divanach P., Kentouri M., 2000. Hatchery techniques for specific diversification in Mediterranean finfish larviculture. Cahiers options
méditerranéennes Vol 47. (Recent advances in Mediterranean Aquaculture finfish diversification): 75 - 87.
Pavlidis M., Koumoundouros G., Sterioti A., Somarakis S., Divanach P., Kentouri M. 2000. Evidence of temperature-dependent sex determination in
the European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Journal of Experimental Zoology. 287 (3): 225-232.
Koumoundouros G., Divanach P., Savaki A., Kentouri M. 2000. Effects of three preservation methods on the evolution of swimbladder radiographic
appearance in sea bass and sea bream juveniles. Aquaculture 182, 17-25.
Papandroulakis N., Markakis G., Divanach P., Kentouri M., 2000. Feeding requirements of sea bream (Sparus aurata) larvae under intensive rearing
conditions. Development of a fuzzy logic controller for feeding. Aquaculture Engineering, 21, 285-299.
Koumoundouros G., Divanach P., Kentouri M. 1999. Ontogeny and allometric plasticity of Dentex dentex (Osteichthyes: Sparidae) in rearing
conditions. Marine Biology, 135: 561-572.
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Carillo J., Martinez J., Divanach P., Kentouri M. 1999. Unilateral eye abnormalities in reared Mediterranean gilthead sea bream. The Veterinary
Record, October 23, 494-497.
Divanach P., Papandroulakis N., Kentouri M. 1998. Bases techniques de l'élevage larvaire de la daurade (Sparus aurata). La pisciculture
francaise 134: 61-69.
Dhert P., Divanach P., Kentouri M., Sorgeloos P., 1998. Rearing techniques of difficult marine fish larvae. World Aquaculture, Mars 1998, 29(1),
48-55.
Divanach P., Papandroulakis N., Anastasiadis P., Koumoundouros G., Kentouri M., 1997. Effect of water currents during postlarval and nursery
phase on the development of skeletal deformities in sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) with functional swimbladder. Aquaculture, 156, 145-155.
Koumoundouros G., Oran G., Divanach P., Stefanakis S., Kentouri M., 1997. The opercular complex deformity in intesive gilthead sea bream
(Sparus aurata L.) larviculture. Moment of apparition and description. Aquaculture 156, 165-177.
Koumoundouros G., Gagliardi F., Divanach P., Boglione C., Kentouri M., Cataudella S., 1997. Normal and abnormal osteological development of
caudal fin in Sparus aurata L. fry. Aquaculture 149, 215:226.
Boujard T., Jourdan M., Kentouri M., Divanach P., 1996. Diel feeding activity and the effect of time-restricted self-feeding on growth and feed
conversion in European sea bass. Aquaculture, 139, 112-117.
Efthimiou S., Divanach P., Rosenthal H., 1994. Growth, food conversion and agonistic behaviour in common dentex (Dentex dentex) juveniles fed
on pelleted moist and dry diets. Aquatic Living Resour., 7, 267-275..
Author or co-author of more than other 130 publications
Research Interests
Main research interests focus on : a) Evaluation of fish biological performances for possible specific diversification, performant domestication and
cost effective production; b) biological control of marine finfish segments that are limiting factors of production; c) development of sustainable,
ergonomic, friendly environmental and high quality systems of mariculture.
These are based on :
A special knowledge in Biology of early fish stages (eggs, prelarvae, larvae, fry, juveniles), as well as in telolecith fish larviculture and in all
hatcheries techniques (from extensive to hyperintensive), mainly the low-input mesocosm ones.
A special know-how in methods / techniques used in hatcheries for mastery of fish larvae quality (morphology, osteology, growth potentialities)
without jeopardizing cost-effective productivity, nor need for further manual sorting of abnormal animals.
A special experience in associated hatchery methods / techniques used for increasing quality and productivity: a) depuration / recirculation in
closed systems, mainly that using adsorptive bubble separation techniques; b) intensive food chain management, mainly that related to mass
production of microalgae in photobioreactors and exploitation of wild zooplancton in lagoons; c) quality management of fish larval environment,
mainly that using green and pseudo green methods. d) mastery of weaning and nurcery mainly that using prescribed co- feeding and self-feeding
techniques with inert or compound diets
Educational activities
Teaching experience (lessons, lectures, seminars)
(2003) Lecture, International Master of Aquaculture - Oceanographic Centre of Canaria. Title, Specific Diversification in Aquaculture
(1994) Seminars and lectures, COMETT Course - University of Ghent 9-12-1994 Seminar 1) Mediterranean finfish status, Present status and
potential for diversification. Seminar 2) Hatcheries and larviculture - The mesocosm technique
(1989-1993) Annual Seminars and lessons, Continuous Education, Department of Aquaculture Institute of Marine Biology of Crete.
1- Bio-logic and Techno-logic of Aquaculture 2- Bio-management of sea bass and sea bream culture 2- Exercises of Aquaculture
(1987-1989) Annual seminars, Professional and Continuous Education - Projects Chiefs and Head managers in Aquaculture. University of
Montpellier II, CREUFOP (University Regional Centre of Permanent Education). Title: Biological and economical management of aquaculture
production systems.
(1983-1989) Annual seminars and lessons, Professional and Continuous Education, Projects Chiefs and Head managers in Aquaculture. University
of Montpellier II, CREUFOP (University Regional Centre of Permanent Education). Title1- Management of production systems in Aquaculture.
Title 2 - Bio-management in Aquaculture Title 3 - Exercises of Aquaculture
(1982-1983) Annual seminars and lessons, Professional and Continuous Education, Projects Chiefs and Head managers in Aquaculture. FAO -
University of Montpellier II - CREUFOP Organisation. Title 1- Biology and rearing of Sparids. Title 2- Ecological impact and application of zooplankton
organisms production, exploitation in semi-closed natural ecosystems.
(1981) Seminar and lessons, Professional and Continuous Education, Projects Chiefs and Head managers in Aquaculture. FAO - CREUFOP
Organisation. University of Montpellier II - Station of Marine and Lagoon Biology of Sète. Title- Techniques and methods of production in
Aquaculture
(1981) Lessons and courses, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier I (France) D.E.S.S. (Diploma of Superior Specialised Studies), Human Sciences,
Littoral and Maritime Activities. Title: Social economy of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Other relevant activities
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Member of European Aquaculture Society (EAS)
Scientific head of CretAquarium (Aquarium of Crete, Gr.).
Other
(2007) Award distinction by Aquapartners at Hellexpo Athens. 6 th National Congress for Fisheries and Aquaculture, 15-17 June
Athens
(2006) Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight in the Order of Academic palms (French distinction)
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