The Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences is part of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, a partnership between UQ and the Queensland Government. It aims to support the development of enhanced health outcomes and economic benefits for Australia by carrying out relevant fundamental research to provide a sound basis for subsequent exploitation.

The science of food and nutrition involves the integration of approaches drawing from physical, chemical, and biological disciplines. The Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences uses a range of cross-disciplinary approaches, modern analytical techniques and understanding developed through study of model systems, to identify the fundamental mechanisms responsible for important food and nutrition properties. This involves extensive collaboration with research groups from The University of Queensland, the Queensland Department of Employment Economic Development and Innovation, and many other Australian and international partners.

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Phone: 
+61 7 334 60538
Hartley Teakle Building #83, St Lucia

Centre Director

  • Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa

    Centre Director, Nutrition & Food Science & Centre Director of Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
    Affiliate of Centre for Geoanalytical Mass Spectrometry
    Centre for Geoanalytical Mass Spectrometry

Centre Researchers

  • Professor Mike Gidley

    Emeritus Professor
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
  • Associate Professor Daniel Cozzolino

    Principal Research Fellow
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Dr Bernadine Flanagan

    Research Fellow
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Dr Agnelo Furtado

    Senior Research Fellow
    Centre for Crop Science
  • Professor Bob Gilbert

    Emeritus/Emerita/Emeritx Professor
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
  • Professor Louw Hoffman

    Professor of Meat Science
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Dr Marta Navarro

    Research Fellow & Research Fellow
    Centre for Animal Science
  • Dr Michael Netzel

    Senior Research Fellow
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
    Affiliate Senior Research Fellow of School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
  • Associate Professor Tim O'Hare

    Honorary Associate Professor
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
  • Professor Heather Smyth

    Deputy Director of Research
    The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
    Professorial Research Fellow
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa

    Centre Director, Nutrition & Food Science & Centre Director of Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
    Affiliate of Centre for Geoanalytical Mass Spectrometry
    Centre for Geoanalytical Mass Spectrometry
  • Dr Barbara Williams

    Honorary Senior Research Fellow
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
  • Dr Shahram Niknafs

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Centre for Animal Science
  • Professor Eugeni Roura

    Professorial Research Fellow & Professorial Research Fellow
    Centre for Animal Science

Affiliate, Honorary and Adjunct Researchers

  • Dr Sushil Dhital

    Honorary Senior Fellow
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
  • Dr Glen Fox

    Honorary Senior Lecturer
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Honorary Professor Elliot Gilbert

    Senior Principal Scientist and Lead, Food Materials Science
    Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
    Honorary Professor
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Dr Alison Kelly

    Dr Alison Kelly

    Senior Research Fellow in Statistic
    Centre for Crop Science
    Adjunct Associate Professor
    Centre for Nutrition & Food Sciences (QAAFI)
  • Honorary Professor Qiaoquan Liu

    Dean
    College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, China
    Honorary Professor
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Associate Professor Zivile Luksiene

    Associate Professor
    Vilnius University
  • Honorary Professor Michael Rychlik

    Professor, Head of the Chair of Analytical Food Chemistry
    TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich
    Honorary Professor
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Dr Dharini Sivakumar

    Associate Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow, Agri-Food Science
    Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Dr Francisco Vilaplana

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology