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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

St Louis, Missouri

• Principal duties and responsibilities:
• Designed, conducted, and reported research projects
• Assisted with grant preparation and reporting
• Documented research topics and prepare and submit manuscripts for publication or presentation to peers at the local, national, and international level
• Independently performed statistical data analysis and interpretation
• Solved practical problems relating to difficulties with equipment or test subjects

Canberra, Australia

• Principal duties and responsibilities:
• Lead research on volatile biomarker discovery
• Managed projects and supervise 5 staff members (1 postdoc, 1 graduate student, and 3 research scientists/ technicians) to ensure that experiments are established in accordance with the research design and are completed.
• Assisted with grant writing
• Prepared documentation for patent applications
• Developed research plans

Canberra, Australia

• Principal duties and responsibilities:
• Researched objective and rapid instrumental technologies to measure food and beverages flavors and aroma, and determined key volatile compounds indicators of quality
• Compared electronic nose sensors with biological odorant receptors and defined the nature and extend of the gap between them
• Used GC-MS for the diagnosis of acute fatigue, overtraining and illness of elite athletes through analysis of volatiles in breath

Canberra, Australia

• Developed methods, procedures and guidelines for application of electronic noses in a wine production setting
• Analyzed metabolites in grapes and wines by means of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
• Measured essential characteristics of biological and technical gas sensors
• Collaborated with scientist from other disciplines including agronomy, food science, sensory science, chemistry and statistics.
• Liaised with production staff and process control managers in commercial wineries.

Lima, Peru

• Reformulated powdered soft drinks, custards, jellies, and maize-based desserts
• Assisted in the development of new products
• Evaluated new artificial flavors for food industry application
• Estimated costs of new products

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Biological Science

Dissertation project: “Fast profiling techniques to evaluate the flavour of tomatoes”.  • Analyzed flavour molecules and metabolites in.

Master'S Degree, Postharvest & Food Preservation Engineering

Master’S Degree, Msc In Food Technology

Bachelor’S Degree, Food Industry