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Head of Department

Professor Miranda Mirosa Head of Department

+64 3 479 7953
foodscience.hod@otago.ac.nz
miranda.mirosa@otago.ac.nz

Administrative staff

Richard Blakeley Administrator

+64 3 479 7562
foodscience.office@otago.ac.nz
richard.blakeley@otago.ac.nz

Bronwyn Hughes Finance Associate +64 3 479 7561
bronwyn.hughes@otago.ac.nz
Shelley Linwood

Administrator, Food Science, Sciences
Administrator Client Services, Shared Services, Director's Office, Operations Services

+64 3 479 3149
foodscience.office@otago.ac.nz
shelley.linwood@otago.ac.nz

Ian Ross Head Technician

+64 3 479 8708
foodscience.headtech@otago.ac.nz
ian.ross@otago.ac.nz

Academic staff

Dominic Agyei Senior Lecturer

+64 3 479 7545
dominic.agyei@otago.ac.nz

Aladin Bekhit Professor

+64 3 479 4994
aladin.bekhit@otago.ac.nz

Phil Bremer

Professor

+64 3 479 5469
phil.bremer@otago.ac.nz

Craig Bunt Professor +64 3 479 8365
craig.bunt@otago.ac.nz
Graham Eyres Associate Professor

+64 3 479 7661
graham.eyres@otago.ac.nz

Biniam Kebede Senior Lecturer

+64 3 479 7257
biniam.kebede@otago.ac.nz

Sze Ying Leong Assistant Research Fellow

sze.leong@otago.ac.nz

Jessica McCormack Postdoctoral Fellow

+64 3 479 7566
jessica.mccormack@otago.ac.nz

Miranda Mirosa Professor
Head of Department

+64 3 479 7953
miranda.mirosa@otago.ac.nz

Indrawati Oey Professor
Postgraduate Coordinator 

+64 3 479 8735
indrawati.oey@otago.ac.nz

Mei Peng Senior Lecturer

+64 3 479 4052
mei.peng@otago.ac.nz

Erin Young Postdoctoral Research Fellow

+64 3 479 8071
erin.young@otago.ac.nz

Product Development Research Centre ( PDRC )

Pat Silcock

Manager PDRC

+64 3 479 7564
pat.silcock@otago.ac.nz

Stephanie Then Researcher

+64 3 479 7560
stephanie.then@otago.ac.nz

Support staff

Technical staff

Michelle Leus

Scientific Officer,
Flavour and Analytical Chemist


+64 3 479 7558
michelle.leus@otago.ac.nz
Ian Ross Head Technician

+64 3 479 8708
ian.ross@otago.ac.nz

Paul Turner Senior Laboratory Technician, Shared
+64 3 479 7947
paul.turner@otago.ac.nz
Crystal van Gorp Laboratory Technician – Food Grade
+64 3 479 7544
crystal.vangorp@otago.ac.nz

Postgraduate students

Md Altaf Hossain mdaltaf.hossain@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Safira Andayaniandsa428@student.otago.ac.nz
Elizabeth Agbor Epse Muluh agbel354@student.otago.ac.nz
Norma Cecille Bagarinao bagno602@student.otago.ac.nz
Hannah Browne hannah.browne@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Siyu (Shirley) Chen siyu.chen@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Grace Claregrace.clare@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Ma. Carisse Compendiocomma049@student.otago.ac.nz
Sakuni De Silva sakuni.desilva@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Salome Dini dinsa022@student.otago.ac.nz
Rizwan Matloob Ellahi rizwan.matloob@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Emily Fanning fanem371@student.otago.ac.nz
Dhir Gehlot gehdh798@student.otago.ac.nz
Stella Green stella.green@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Ai Ting Goh aiting.goh@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Ari Hayati hayar206@student.otago.ac.nz
Nicholas Horlacher honic168@student.otago.ac.nz
Courtney Irwin irwco422@student.otago.ac.nz
Jini John johji515@student.otago.ac.nz
Siripong Kanokruangrong siripong.kanokr@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
John Li lile3995@student.otago.ac.nz
Shuxian Li lish6041@student.otago.ac.nz
Stephanie McLeod stephanie.mcleod@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Yunfan (Nancy) Mo yunfan.mo@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Jessica O'Connor jessica.oconnor@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Sarathadevi Rajendran sarathadevi.rajendran@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Joy Sim simjo010@student.otago.ac.nz
Khushboo Soni sonkh135@student.otago.ac.nz
Steffi Thomasthost597@student.otago.ac.nz
Nick Wong wonni807@student.otago.ac.nz
Angela Wulansariwulan793@student.otago.ac.nz
Chao (Rebecca) Yang rebecca.yang@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
George Yang yange860@student.otago.ac.nz
Inchara Yoganarasimhaswamy nagin708@student.otago.ac.nz
Stella Zhou zouyu502@student.otago.ac.nz

Past members of the Department of Food Science

  • Associate Professor John Birch
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