Silje Forbord

silje.forbord@sintef.no

Silje Forbord is the Research Manager for the Seaweed Technology group at SINTEF Ocean, and has 17 years’ seaweed cultivation experience from land-based nursery and sea cultivation. She is also the project leader for The Norwegian Seaweed Centre, a national dedicated research infrastructure that promotes research and facilitates the development of new technologies for industrial cultivation and use of kelp. She holds a PhD in cultivation of sugar kelp with focus on nitrogen uptake kinetics, growth characteristics and chemical composition.