Louka is a Ph.D. student at Ghent University, affiliated with the research group Phycology and the Laboratory of Applied Mycology and Phenomics (LAMP). As a part of the European AlgaeProBANOS project, her doctoral research focuses on the cultivation of the red seaweed Furcellaria lumbricalis in the Baltic Sea. The primary objective is to explore its potential as a feedstock for plant biostimulant production. This work involves various aspects, including seaweed life cycle control, sustainable seaweed aquaculture, population genomics, and the application of bioassays to investigate Furcellaria’s biostimulatory potential through multispectral imaging.
