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

See also

  • Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details

Ailie Smith

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