Prof. Somkiat Piyatiratitivorakul obtained his Bachelor and Masters degrees in Marine Biology from Chulalongkorn University in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and his PhD degree in Biology from the University of South Carolina in 1987. His research interests are on aquaculture, aquatic physiology and nutrition, ecology and water quality. He is a member of the Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society, University of South Carolina) and the Asian Fisheries Society.
Prof. Somkiat started working as a Fishery Biologist at the Phuket Marine Fishery Station (1978-1979) and the Marine Exploration Division, Samutprakarn (1979-1980), both under the Department of Fisheries, Thailand. He later moved to be a lecturer (1980-1983) then Assistant Professor (1983-1996) and Associate Professor (1996 to date) at the Department of Marine Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He was Deputy Director of the university’s Aquatic Resources Research Institute from 1991 to 1999, and the Environmental Research Institute from 2002 to 2003. He is currently the Director of the Center of Excellence for Marine Biotechnology of the Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University.
His job training and experiences include the following: Environmental Study for Developing Countries (Worcester, USA, 1985), Shrimp recruitment project, WESTPAC (Australia, 1987), Fish cage culture (Kinki University, Japan, 1988), Larval culture and nutrition (ARC BELGIUM, 1991), Fish oil workshop (Indonesia, 1992), Water pollution and toxic sensitivity study tour (Stockholm, 1993), JSPS Scientific exchange program (ORI, Japan, 1994) and Research exchange program (Univ. Ryukyus, JAPAN, 1998).
Department of Marine Science Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330 THAILAND