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Britz, Margaret (1952 - )

Educator, Food scientist and Microbiologist

Born: 12 June 1952 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1982 Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
1992 - 1996 Chair of the Environment Council of Victoria
1997 - Director of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation
1998 Foundation Chair of Food Science at the University of Melbourne

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Prepared by: Ailie Smith
Created: 11 February 2003
Modified: 15 April 2003

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