Sadasivam J Kaushik

Sadasivam J. Kaushik earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the prestigious Presidency College of Madras University in India. He received his Doctor of Science degree from the University of Bretagne Occidentale, France, for his work on the influence of salinity on nitrogen metabolism and arginine requirement of rainbow trout. As an active member of the committee on fish nutrition and production of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, he was actively involved in fish nutrition...See more

Sadasivam J. Kaushik earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the prestigious Presidency College of Madras University in India. He received his Doctor of Science degree from the University of Bretagne Occidentale, France, for his work on the influence of salinity on nitrogen metabolism and arginine requirement of rainbow trout. As an active member of the committee on fish nutrition and production of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, he was actively involved in fish nutrition research and training. He was the director of the INRA - IFREMER Joint research units on fish nutrition, and also headed the hydrobiology research station at Saint Pée sur Nivelle, France. He has co-authored more than 300 scientific papers and books on fish nutrition and feeding. Has been active in coordinating European research projects in fish nutrition and metabolism. Further to his retirement from INRA, he held a European research area chair position in the University of Las Palmas, Spain. See less