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Mr. Hallaråker is the founder and developer of Arctic Bioscience´s business concept. He is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the Nutraceutical and Biomarine industries. He holds an MSc in Marine Biology and Aquaculture from the University of Bergen.

Erik-Jan is the Research Director at the Department of Nutrition and Feed Technology in the Aquaculture Division. With a master’s in aquaculture from Wageningen University and a PhD in fish physiology from Radboud University, he has extensive experience as a senior scientist and research group leader at NIFES and the Institute of Marine Research, specializing in fish nutrition.

His recent work focuses on researching new feed raw materials for fish farming, such as insects and mussels, leading several national and international projects in this area. He served on the Norwegian VKM Feed Panel (2014–2022) and an ICES working group (2018–2023), and held a 20% professorship at the University of Bergen (2018–2023).

Eriko Takano is Professor of Synthetic Biology in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, at the University of Manchester. She is one of three directors for the EPSRC/BBSRC-funded Manchester Synthetic Biology Research Centre, SYNBIOCHEM. Since 2017, she is the Section Head of Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry and in 2018 to present, she is the Deputy Head of the Chemistry Department.

Eriko is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the synthetic biology of microbes for antibiotic production. She has been working in both industrial and academic Streptomyces research for 26 years. She studied pharmacy at Kitasato University, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan. After working as a researcher at the Department of Genetics of Meiji Seika Kaisha, Yokohama, Japan, for four years, she moved to the John Innes Center, Norwich, UK, where she obtained her PhD from the University of East Anglia in 1994 and worked as a postdoc in the Molecular Microbiology department until 2002. After three years as Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology / Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, Germany, she was appointed as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow in Microbial Physiology at the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB), University of Groningen, The Netherlands in 2006 and as an Associate Professor in Synthetic Microbiology at 2010. Since September 2012 she is Professor of Synthetic Biology at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and from 2014 the Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology Research Theme Director in Faculty of Life Sciences.