Liz Waters Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

I develop, plan, manage, and review research, development and extension (outreach and education) programs for the Australian grape and wine industry and the Australian Government. These are national programs involving diverse research organizations and funded at approximately AUD 20 million pa.My responsibilities span R&D across the whole value chain and.

I manage the scientific peer review process of about 400 original manuscripts every year. This is through selecting reviewers for their scientific expertise and judgement, encouraging timely responses from reviewers and authors and then making decisions on the merits of manuscripts for publication, assisted by recommendations of reviewers. Relationships.

The Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology was founded in 1980 as a non-political organisation to serve the interests of practising winemakers and viticulturists by encouraging the exchange of technical information.I was elected onto the Board in November 2009 and served as the Public Officer and Secretary. During my tenure, the Society returned to.

I have been involved with wine research at The Australian Wine Research Institute since 1987 and led research on projects which identified grape and wine compounds responsible for wine quality attributes and improved stabilisation and packaging processes in wineries.My leadership of these projects resulted in changes in industry practices and improved.

A leading, Australian-based technical and engineering consultancy, Provisor supported the international wine, food and beverage industries with skilled consultants in process engineering, greenhouse gas emissions, lean six sigma, food technology, sensory analysis and winemaking.As an non- executive Director of a small Board, I set the strategic direction.

I developed and led ten research projects in Program 1 involving ten project leaders, more than 70 research staff and ten postgraduate students, thirteen research organisations, four States of Australia and one group in France.Significant wine industry and stakeholder involvement was encouraged through extensive consultation at the planning stage, regular.

Gaicd, Company Directors Course

Phd, Plant Biochemistry

Thesis entitled “Heat unstable wine proteins and their interactions with wine polysaccharides” Resulted in three scientific refereed.

Bsc, Biochemistry