Professor Grant Stentiford FRC Path
Biography
Grant Stentiford is Chief Scientist at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas). Cefas is an Executive Agency of the UK Government’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Cefas, via its leading role as an applied science organisation is focussed on ensuring a sustainable future for our rivers, seas and the ocean, supporting healthy and productive marine and freshwater ecosystems and those communities that rely upon them.
Prior to taking on the role of Chief Scientist, Grant was Principal Pathologist at Cefas where he also led the Animal and Human Health Theme, was Head of the WOAH Collaborating Centre for Emerging Aquatic Animal Diseases and was co-Director of the Sustainable Aquaculture Futures Centre at the University of Exeter, UK, where he holds an honorary professorship. Up to 2018 he was Director of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL) for Crustacean Diseases on behalf of the European Commission during which time he also led on Aquatic Animal Health at Cefas. He has a BSc (first class) in Life Sciences from the University of Nottingham, UK, and a PhD in invertebrate pathology from the University of Glasgow. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Pathologists (FRC Path) in 2014 and, a Fellow of the Linnean Society (FLS) in 2016. His core work has focused on the identification and impact of aquatic animal diseases on farmed and wild animals, more recently leading to proposals to incorporate One Health principles into sustainable food system design. Via this work, Cefas have developed a broad national and international science portfolio in which these systems-based approaches are now being incorporated.
Chief Scientist, Cefas
The Chief Scientist is a member of the Cefas Management Board. The role’s main responsibility is to lead the development of Cefas ’ scientific capability and ensure the integrity and quality of all its scientific activity.