Person
Britz, Margaret (1952 - )
- Born
- 12 June 1952
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Educator, Food scientist and Microbiologist
Summary
Margaret Britz was appointed Foundation Chair of Food Science at the University of Melbourne in 1998. She has also been Head of the Department of Food Science and Agribusiness in the Institute of Land and Food Resources, University of Melbourne. Research areas of interest of Britz include medical microbiology, human physiology and biochemistry, industrial microbiology, environmental technologies and microbiology, and the physiology and genetics of food-grade microbes.
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Chronology
- 1982
- Career position - Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- 1992 - 1996
- Career position - Chair of the Environment Council of Victoria
- 1997 -
- Career position - Director of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation
- 22 June 1998
- Career position - Foundation Chair of Food Science, University of Melbourne
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Resources
- 'Britz, Margaret (19520612-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476469. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 11 February 2003, Last modified: 15 April 2003