Prof. Dr. Felipe Boéchat Vieira holds a PhD in Aquaculture from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), and he currently holds the position of agricultural engineer at UFSC, where he is a researcher at the Marine Shrimp Laboratory/UFSC. He works on topics related mainly to the cultivation and nutrition of marine shrimp, with emphasis on biofloc systems, integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, food additives (probiotics, prebiotics, organic acids, and bioactives), and alternative ingredients to fishmeal and fish oil in shrimp diets. He is the coordinator of the LCM/UFSC research group Shrimp and Marine Macroalgae Cultivation.