Dr. Peter Torley
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Food Research Group
Phone: +61 7 3365 3930
Fax: +61 7 3365 4199
Email: petert@cheque.uq.edu.au

Academic Background

Bachelor of Technology (Biotechnology) (Hons), Massey University, New Zealand
PhD (Land and Food Sciences), University of Queensland

Employment History

Research Scientist, Food Science Australia, CSIRO, Brisbane (1995-2002)
Visiting Researcher, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (1989)
Biotechnologist, Meat Industry Research Institute of New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand (1986-1991)

Research Interests

Peter Torley has research interests in food extrusion and the processing properties of meat. His food extrusion interests include the extrusionof starch and honey mixtures and the use of extrusion to produce high moisture texturised products. Peter's meat gelation interests include the influence of raw material characteristics (eg source animal, fibre type, post-mortem changes in proteins) on gel forming ability.

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