Selina Fyfe: Postdoctoral Fellow

Selina Fyfe is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, the University of Queensland (UQ). She is currently studying Australia’s food system with Food System Horizons.

Her PhD thesis focused on the Australian green plum (Buchanania obovata) and included research in food chemistry, metabolomics, nutrition profiles, food sensory analysis, physical properties, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and changes in the green plum through growth and maturation, across locations and harvest years, as well as a chapter on responsible research with Australian native plant foods. Prior to food science, she was a multi-skilled medical scientist working in pathology laboratories.

Selina has a Masters of Food Science and Technology (UQ), a Masters of Public Health (James Cook University) and a PhD (UQ).