Débora M. Fracalossi concluded a Ph.D. in Fisheries from Auburn University, USA (1993) with an emphasis on Aquaculture and Fish Nutrition. She held a three-year post-doctoral position at the Smithsonian Institution, USA (1996) and undertook a sabbatical period at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway (2009). Since 1999, she has held a Professor position at the Department of Aquaculture, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, advises master's and doctorate students and supervises the Fish Nutrition Laboratory. In 2015, she became a full Professor. Her area of expertise is aquatic animal nutrition (nutritional requirements, interaction between nutrition and health, evaluation of feedstuffs and additives). She coordinated the Graduate Program in Aquaculture at UFSC (2002-2006). She chaired the XIII International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding, Florianópolis, June 2008, and she was the President of the Brazilian Society of Aquaculture and Aquatic Biology from 2010 to 2014.