Role: Research Assistant

Timothy Bohan holds a Master of Science in Applied Coastal and Marine Management from and a Bachelor’s degree in Geographical and Archaeological Sciences from University College Cork. His expertise lies in seaweed cultivation, Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA), and marine ecology.

Tim has worked extensively with the anti-methanogenic seaweed Asparagopsis spp., conducting his MSc. thesis on an IMTA system utilizing Asparagopsis armata and salmon effluents at the Bantry Marine Research Station (BMRS). He later expanded his work in South Australia, where he cultivated A. armata and A. taxiformis at a commercial scale. There, he played a key role in enhancing quality control and optimizing production processes through his applied knowledge of seaweed cultivation.

Currently, Tim is focused on the distribution and potential valorisation of invasive marine species in the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean. He is a collaborator on the VALIAS Project, funded by the MSCA Horizon Europe programme.