Associate ProfessorLuis Afonso

Associate Professor of Marine Sciences

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts

  • Associate Professor of Marine Sciences
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Sustainable Bioproducts
  • +61 3 556 33461 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

animal physiology, cell biology, fish health and reproduction, aquaculture,
career education

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE315 - Comparative Animal Physiology
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE254 Genetics and genomics (practicals)
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE352 - Community Science Project
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE329 - Aquatic Animal Health and Reproduction
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE115 Essential Skills in Biosciences
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SLE111 Cell and Genes
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Determining Biomarkers of Chronic Thermal Stress in Fish
    Monique Adzijovski - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Are Plastics Making Us Sick? Microplastics and The Immune System
    Telisia Jayne Smith - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Multi-level Responses to High-temperature Stress in Zebrafish During EarlyDevelopment
    Tianyu Wang - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Microplastics in Food: Prevalence and Preclinical Studies on Health Effects
    Radhika Mandar Gune - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Fatty acid metabolism in barramundi (Lates calcarifer)
    Michael Salini - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Long-term exposure to elevated temperature in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
    Jared John Tromp - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Physiological and Molecular Indicators of Smoltification in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
    Christian van Rijn - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Seasonal environmental impacts on the productivity and nutritional status of farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania
    Matthew Jago - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Sex differentiation and sex reversal in Tasmanian Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
    Morgan Brown - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Zinc and magnesium doped hydroxyapatite-urea nanohybrids for crop improvement
    Bhaskar Sharma - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Environmental and human toxicity assessment of Phosphorus-based nanomaterials
    Ayushi Priyam - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Bioengineering, Nano-Elicitation and Application of Plant Specialized Metabolites
    Sagar Arya - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    ECOSAFETY ASSESSMENT OF IRON OXIDE NANOFERTILIZERS
    Shweta Gehlout - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Ecosafety Assessment of Phosphorous-based Nanofertilizers
    Anurag Nath - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Behaviour and Toxicity Assessment of Iron-based Nanofertilizers in Aquatic Ecosystem
    Natasha Yadav - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Toxicity Risk of Microplastics and Nanoplastics to Environmental and Human Health
    Kamal Poudel - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Composition and Drivers of Gut Microbiomes in Reef Fish
    Geetika Sudhir Nambiar - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Astaxanthin Determination in Fish Feed Using Multiplexed Detection
    Karin Luize Mazur - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Seaweed as a Natural Climate Solution
    Finnley William River Ross - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2025