Wolfgang Koppe graduated from the Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany, with a diploma degree in Agriculture, Animal Production. He was awarded his PhD in 1993, specialising in fish nutrition and physiology.

In 1995 he joined the Aquaculture Research Centre of Skretting in Stavanger, Norway, as a researcher in the areas of pigmentation, amino acids and formulation. From 1999-2017 Wolfgang headed the Nutrition R&D department at Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre. In this role, he was developing and executing an R&D portfolio for feeds for salmon, trout, whiteleg shrimp, tilapia, sea bass, sea bream and other species while also developing and implementing commercial nutritional solutions for Skretting’s global feed lines.

Dr Koppe is inventor and co-inventor of 7 patents for fish feed applications. Since 2017 he works as a consultant in the field of aquafeeds.