Jose Melena
Facultad de Ciencias del Mar. Universidad Estatal PenÃnsula de Santa Elena. Avda. Principal La Libertad – Santa Elena
Biography
Prof. José Antonio Melena Cevallos, has a degree in Aquaculture (ESPOL) and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology (University of Montpellier II, France). He has been working for 24 years in scientific research in Marine Sciences, initially at the National Center for Aquaculture and Marine Research (CENAIM-ESPOL) and at UPSE, as senior researcher and professor. He has led more than a dozen scientific and technological projects, particularly in Aquatic Pathology, Molecular Biology and Aquaculture focused on diversification (marine molluscs species). It has 30 scientific articles published in indexed and non-indexed journals, in addition to technical books as co-author.