Key IFR Contacts
Dr József
Baranyi
 Predictive
Microbiology & Risk Assessment
József's interests turned to
biomathematics while working in the Microbiology Department
of Uppsala University, Sweden, 1988-90. He joined
to IFR in 1990 and since then, he has been working
in the area of Predictive Microbiology, focussing
on the mathematical modelling of microbial responses
to the food environment. His special interests include
dynamic and stochastic models.
He has been coordinating and participating in several
projects funded by UK government, EU and industry.
He was invited expert in several EC programmes and
other international projects; invited and keynote
speaker of numerous workshops and conferences. He
is author of ca. 40 refereed papers and three book
chapters.
Email jozsef.baranyi@bbsrc.ac.uk
Dr
Clare Mills
 Food
Allergy Cluster
Clare graduated from the University
of Bristol with a degree in Biochemistry in 1979.
Following working at the then Glaxo Research at Ware
she went to study for a PhD at the University of Kent.
After working at the Department of Health in 1985
she joined IFR working in the Biorecognition and Immunology
Group and became head of the Physical Biochemistry
Group in 1999. She has worked with allergenic food
proteins from peanut and milk, studying their physicochemical
properties after processing using a range of protein
biochemical and immunological methods. Clare is the
co-ordinator of the EU integrated project EuroPrevall
(www.europrevall.org - goes live 01.10.05) studying
food allergy with over 50 partners and has also participated
in a number of EU research projects with various partners.
Email Clare.Mills@bbsrc.ac.uk
Dr
Keith Waldron
 Co-Product
Exploitation
Keith graduated in Biochemistry from
Edinburgh University (Biochemistry) 1981, and followed
this with a PhD from the University of Glasgow. Keith
is now a Senior Scientist at IFR, whose research revolves
around plant cell walls in relation to quality of
food. Keith is a Fellow of the Institute of Biology,
and was recently elected as an Honorary Member of
the Royal Institution
Email keith.waldron@bbsrc.ac.uk
Dr Pete
Wilde
 Structuring
Foods for Health
Peter joined the Process Physics Department
at IFR in 1985, following a degree in Biophysics at
UEA. He has over 20 years research experience investigating
the interfacial properties of proteins and emulsifiers
using a range of physical techniques. The focus of
Peter's research has been to understand how proteins
and other food ingredients stabilise foams and emulsions.
He now heads a project in the Structuring Food for
Health programme, investigating ways by which this
knowledge can be used to create healthier food structures.
Email peter.wilde@bbsrc.ac.uk
Dr Brian Hills
Quality Throughout Shelf-Life
Since joining the IFR in 1986 Brian has
been directing research on the application of Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI) to Food Science. This is an on-going interdisciplinary
effort involving food process optimisation, the microbial
stability of food, and physico-chemical studies of shelf-life,
including spectroscopic studies on chocolate blooming,
creaming and mealiness in apples.
Email brian.hills@bbsrc.ac.uk
Professor
Tim Brocklehurst
FHN Direct and Head of Food & Health
Network
Tim has 30 years experience in food microbiology.
He is Head of the Microbial Ecology Platform at the
Institute of Food Research, where he studies the effect
of food structure on microbial growth (See http://www.ifr.ac.uk/science/platform/ME/).
This research area was pioneered by Tim’s Group, and
concentrates on the interaction between bacteria and
their physical and chemical environment in model and
real food systems. Additionally, he is exploiting transcriptomic
methods to identify the molecular responses of food
borne pathogenic bacteria to inimical conditions in
food.
Tim leads research projects funded by
government, industry and the European Union. He is delighted
to be Visiting Professor in Food Microbiology at London
South Bank University, and is a PhD examiner at universities
in Denmark, Holland and the UK. He has published over
100 papers, book chapters, conference proceedings, patents,
“popular” articles, and training manuals, and is on
the Editorial Board of the International Journal of
Food Microbiology.
Email tim.brocklehurst@bbsrc.ac.uk
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