Luís E.C. Conceição is the co-founder, CEO, and R&D director at SPAROS Lda. He obtained a BS from ICBAS/Porto University (Portugal) and received his MSc and PhD from Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He served as a post-doc at SINTEF Aquaculture (Trondheim, Norway) and a Researcher at CCMAR/University of Algarve (Faro, Portugal). His expertise includes nutritional physiology, feeding and nutrition of fish larvae and juvenile fish, and nutritional predictive models. He has vast experience in R&D projects at both the national (CCMAR and SPAROS, Portugal) and international level (SINTEF, Norway). He has coordinated/participated in several research projects and PhD students in fish larval nutrition (SPAROS and CCMAR) in Portugal, Norway, Spain, Vietnam, Brazil, and Denmark. He was vice-chair of COST action LARVANET.