Jeff Herse
Qualifications | Research interests | Publications | Awards | Grants and funding | Memberships
Laboratory technician with 20 years experience with Queensland Department of Primary Industries Innovative Food Technologies performing chemical analysis, particularly using chromatographic techniques, food processing and organoleptic assessment.
Currently >10 years with Queensland Health, Forensic and Scientific Services, Organics section performing GC-MS analysis of waters, environmental and forensic samples.
Qualifications
- Associate Diploma, Chemistry. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld.
- Graduate Certificate, Biochemistry. University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld.
Research interests and expertise
- Application of GC-MS, particularly analysis of VOCs from water, food, forensic and biological tissue samples.
- Analytical and Preparative LC, particularly purification of bioactives such as proteins, peptides and phenolics.
Publications and research
Co-authored a number of R&D and commercial consultancy reports for:
- Dairy Industry Research and Development Corporation
- Dairy Australia
- Horticulture Australia
- Horizon Science Pty Ltd
- Elisa Systems Pty Ltd
- Qld Dept. of State Development and Access Cold and Dry Storage
- Bidvest Pty Ltd
- Queensland Health, Forensic and Scientific Services
- FRDC and Seafood Services Australia
- Pauls Ltd
- Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Tromso, Norway
- Natbio Pty Ltd
- Simplot Australia Pty Ltd
- Australian Journal of Dairy Technology.
Awards
- Australian Journal of Dairy Technology Award 1992, for paper published in 1991, for its importance to the dairy industry.
Grants and funding
Qld Health, Forensic and Scientific Services grant: Proof of principle investigation of the suitability of in-house GC-MS equipment for the analysis of breath samples. $10 000 allocated.
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