Professor de Nys is an outstanding champion of innovation. He is nominated for being the driving force behind ground breaking innovations now delivering significant economic impact in the sectors of agriculture and food technology, and water and environment. He is impacting both the scale and efficiency of aquaculture, facilitating investment of more than $100M in Australia?s aquaculture industry. He is recognised internationally as an outstanding researcher having delivered the technologies central to the sustainable expansion of aquaculture in the tropics with a demonstrated paradigm shift in production and environmental practices.