FABA - Key Persons
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Commercialisation Associate
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- External Relations Manager
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Manager, Marketing and Communications
- Media Inquiries
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- Chairman of the Steering Committee
- Co - Founder
- Chairman, FaBA Project Investment Committee and Member, Industry Steering Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Research Fellow
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- Innovation Leader
- Member of the Project Investment Committee
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- Director
- Founding Director
- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Specialist Data Scientist
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Senior Project Manager
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Senior Research Fellow, Premium Food and Beverages
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- Chairman
- Chancellor
- Member of the Steering Committee
- Member of the Industry Steering Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Business Development Inquiries
- Senior Associate, Commercialisation
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- AM Is Chair of the FaBA Industry Steering Committee, Which Sets the Strategic Direction
- Chairman of Industry Steering Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Senior Manager
- Associate Director, FaBA Operations
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Senior Research Assistant
Professor Esteban Marcellin conducts research focused on advance biomanufacturing and systems, and synthetic biology.
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- Director of FJ Fleming Food Consulting Pty Ltd
- Fellow of the Australian Institute of Food Science
- Member of the Project Investment Committee
Associate Professor Heather Smyth is a flavour chemist and sensory scientist who has been working with premium food and beverage products for more than 20 years.
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- Member of the Industry Steering Committee
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- Professor
- UQ Professor of Marketing
Professor Janet McColl-Kennedy is internationally recognised for her research insights in customer experience management and measurement, the role of digital technology, customer insights and choice preferences, and customer value co-creation.
Janet is UQ Professor of Marketing and an Honorary Visiting Professor and Fellow, Cambridge Service Alliance, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, UK. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and Distinguished Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC). She is also a Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI).
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- Associate Dean of Research
- Professor
Professor Jason Stokes' laboratory performs collaborative research with major international food companies, providing enabling technologies and approaches to design healthier, consumer acceptable, food products.
Jason is the Associate Dean of Research (Research Training) in the UQ Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology and a Professor in the UQ School of Chemical Engineering. He has previously spent 10 years as a research scientist and manager at Unilever's Discovery Laboratory, UK. Jason holds a BEng (Chem) and PhD from The University of Melbourne.
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- Director of the High - Value Nutrition Science Challenge
- Member of the Project Investment Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Manager, Commercialisation and Business Development
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Member of the Industry Steering Committee
- Professional Director and Advisor, and Chair
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- Deputy Head
- Leader in Australia
- Professor
Mark is a Professor of Food Microbiology and Deputy Head of the UQ School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability. In addition to research, he has a passion for teaching and mentoring the next generation, and lectures in several food microbiology, food safety and food biotechnology subjects.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Is Director of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, the University of Queensland ( UQ ) .
- Professor
Professor Morell is appointed to the Industry Steering Committee as the representative of UQ as the FaBA Alliance Administrator.
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- Director and CEO of UQ Skills
Dane is the Director and CEO of UQ Skills, the Registered Training Organisation (RTO) of The University of Queensland, which is committed to producing innovative and adaptable skilled workers, leaders and graduates through vocational education and training.
Dane is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a Graduate Diploma of infection and immunity, Graduate Certificate of Evidence-Based Complimentary Medicine, Bachelor of Medicines Management (Prof.Hons Complimentary Medicine), Bachelor of Science (Nutrition and Exercise Science) and several Diploma qualifications in training, education, and business.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Business Administration Officer
Associate Professor Nidhi Bansal is a milk and bioprocessing expert with more than 15 years' experience in alternative processing methods, milk protein structure and functionality, milk product drying systems, and rapid quantification assays of milk biomolecules.
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- Investment Manager
- Member of the Project Investment Committee
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- Member of the Project Investment Committee
- Professional Executive and Non - Executive Director