Dr Gary Barker
Senior Researcher
Food Science and Technology
Quadram Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Gary Barker is a senior researcher at Quadram Institute Bioscience,United Kingdom. He trained as a theoretical physicist and have worked at the Institute of Food Research/Quadram Institute since 1984. Research has centered on the application of theoretical and computational techniques in Food Materials science and Food Safety science. Food materials research has included mathematical modelling and computer simulation of macromolecular suspensions, colloids, foams, powders and grains.
Research Interest
Dr Gary Barker's Food safety research has included spatio-temporal modelling of bacterial growth, predictive microbiology and quantitative risk assessment. This research includes the development of novel computer based tools for complex systems analysis and decision support and, specifically, Bayesian Belief Network methods to encode and analyse food borne hazard domains.
