I come from Auckland, New Zealand.

I completed a Bachelor of Science with honours at The University of Otago. I majored in Food science and minored in consumer food science. My honours dissertation title was "Evaluation of Starch Digestibility of French Fries Pre-treated with Pulsed Electric Field (PEF)." My PhD project is a collaborative project between the University of Otago and Fondazione Edmund Mach. I started in July 2020 and my overall aim is to gain a mechanistic understanding of the transformations responsible for hop flavour development in beer.

PhD project: Understanding hop flavour in beer using high throughput volatile compound analysis

FEM Department and supervisor : Department of Food Quality and Nutrition, dr. Franco Biasioli

Email: rebecca.roberts@postgrad.otago.ac.nz