Daniel Cozzolino

Biography

I am an Associate Professor within the School of Medical and Applied Sciences at the CQUniversity, Rockhampton, Queensland. I am involved in the development and implementation of the Bachelor of Agriculture. I have graduated from the Universidad de la Republica (Montevideo, Uruguay) as an Agricultural Engineer/Agronomy in 1989 and obtained his PhD from the University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland) in 1998. My research career has started in 1993 with the development of NIR applications for a wide range of agricultural products at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA-Uruguay) before joined in 2002 the Australian Wine Research Institute (Senior Research Scientist, Team Leader Rapid Analytical Method (AWRI) based in Adelaide (South Australia). Between 2011-2015 I was Research Fellow with the Barley Breeding Program (The University of Adelaide, Australia). My principal area of research is investigating applications of non-invasive (near and mid infrared spectroscopic, electronic noses) methods and chemometrics in agriculture, agricultural products and foods. I have published more than 200 articles in refereed journals, invited chapters or reviews and more than 250 miscellaneous publications. In 2013, I have received the Tomas Hirschfeld Award for my contributions to NIR spectroscopy.

Research Interest

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES