Greater sustainability and improved nutrition through smart technology and supply chain logistics
Andrew Tilley took out a BSc Hons. from Curtin University in 2016 majoring in Food Science and Technology. An undergraduate highlight was a stint as R&D Intern on a New Colombo Plan Scholarship that enabled Tilley to spend two months onsite at Guilin Seamild Industries in China. Post-graduation, he spent […]
Andrew Tilley studied food science and technology at Perth WA’s Curtin University, but took the long way round to a CRC-backed PhD at Murdoch via the food manufacturing industry.
Dr Mark McHenry and his wife, Dr Julia Anwar McHenry grow specialty globe artichokes on Mt Lindesay Farm, near Denmark, WA. As partners in a four-year, Future Food Systems-backed project, they work with researchers at Murdoch University including ANPC scientist Dr Ruey Leng Loo and PhD student Andrew Tilley to quantify beneficial properties in globe artichokes, notably long-chain inulin.
Future Food Systems’ first graduated PhD has gone from researching urban food policy to a paid role at her alumnus, QUT, exploring agrifood clusters across Australia.
A Q&A with FFS Education Director Prof. Brian Sindel
Meet Dr Natasha Teakle, Summit speaker Dr Natasha ‘Tash’ Teakle comes from a WA farming family and spent eight years as an agricultural researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Western Australia, Glasgow, Southern California and Sydney before being becoming the head of start-up accelerator AgriStart in 2016. Last year, […]
In July. Future Food Systems staff, research leads and PhDs represented FFS, our projects and our mission at conferences and agrifood events nationwide.
FFS’s annual Research Showcase webinar will highlight some of our most exciting projects around cluster planning, food science and protected cropping.
EcoMag and UNSW to upcycle agrifood waste into low-carbon construction material In a new CRC project, SME EcoMag is working with UNSW chemical engineers to turn three waste streams – from salt operations, agriculture and industrial processes – into one sustainable, in-demand product. Read more New nutraceuticals from upcycled, spray-dried […]
The first sensory evaluation and fingerprinting work is underway in the CRC’s ‘Bioactive components for value-add to Australian artichokes’ project following the winter-spring harvest of Mt Lindesay’s organic globe artichoke varieties.