Declan Troy Email & Phone Number

Declan completed his post graduate studies at University College Dublin in 1986 investigating the biochemistry of muscle proteases as a function of pH. He later became Head of the Meat Science Department in The National Food Centre, Dublin. During this time he has published over 150 scientific peer reviewed publications, book chapters and scientific articles, mainly in the area of meat quality. The main focus of his research is on the biochemistry of muscle proteins and their role in meat tenderness. Declan has always encouraged the up-take of science based innovations by the food industry and has interacted widely with the sector to this end. He has collaborated in his research programme with many different research groups from Europe and all around the world including Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Uruguay, China, Brazil and of course the USA. Declan has fostered highly successful international collaborations and exchange of knowledge in food science by leading research projects worth more than €80 million that supported 125 PhD students globally in different laboratories at collaborating institutions funded nationally and internationally. Most recently he has been appointed as the Director of the Consumer Food Centre in Teagasc. Declan sits on many national and international committees formulating research priorities in food science and advising state agencies and companies. He is currently a member of the UNECE Working Group on Meat Quality. He was Chairman of the World Congress of Food Science and Technology 2016 (IUFoST 2016) in Dublin in his capacity as President of the Institute of Food Science and Technology of Ireland. He has also been appointed the International Secretary of the annual International Congress of Meat Science and Technology (ICoMST) of which he was chair both in 2006 (Dublin) and Cork (2017) and he is Academic Lead to Meat Technology Ireland (MTI). Currently he is manages the Teagasc Research Centre in Ashtown, Dublin .

Listed skills include Science.

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  Assistant Director Of Research And Director Of Technology Transfer

  Teagasc

  Jul 2009 - Present - Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown, Dublin, Ireland

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  Synge Street Cbs, Dublin, Ireland