Professor Herve Migaud

Honorary Professor

Institute of Aquaculture Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Herve Migaud

About me

My academic journey in Stirling started in 2002 as a postdoctoral fellow employed in an EU project (Pubertiming). I then became a lecturer in reproductive physiology and senior lecturer, reader and obtained a chair in 2012 in fish physiology. I have been the Director of Research for the Institute of Aquaculture from 2011 to 2015, Deputy Director in 15-16 and Acting Director in 17-18. I am currently the Production research group leader composed of 31 academic staff, postdocs, PhDs and technical support staff working on breeding, genetics and nutrition of aquaculture species. I am currently the President of the European Aquaculture Society (EAS), leader of the Aquaculture Research Collaborative Hub in the UK (ARCH UK) and Distinguished Professor of the Zhejiang Province since 2018.

My main research interests are in environmental, endocrine, genetic and molecular control of  fish physiology especially broodstock management, early maturation, gender and growth, the photoperiodism network, chronobiology systems (particularly clock systems), genetic manipulation for sterility and domestication of new species including over recent years cleaner fish for the biological control of sea lice in salmon farming. Research activities cover a range of temperate and tropical teleost species including new species for Aquaculture in South East Asia and South America.