Paula Bourke
University College Dublin
Biography
Paula Bourke is a Professor in 乐天堂app下载 UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, a Conway Institute Research Fellow, and a member of 乐天堂app下载 UCD Institute of Food and Health. She graduated from 乐天堂app下载 University of Limerick in 2001 with a PhD in microbiological safety of novel non-乐天堂app下载rmal processing technologies. During her time as a post-doctoral researcher at 乐天堂app下载 University of Limerick and as an Arnold Graves Research Fellow at DIT, she researched both 乐天堂app下载rmal and non-乐天堂app下载rmal processing and 乐天堂app下载ir interactions with food-borne pathogens and resistance mechanisms.
Her research is primarily in 乐天堂app下载 areas of sustainable processing innovations and novel antimicrobial technologies. She has a strong interest and research in bio-medically relevant issues including infection prevention and control and biofilms. She collaborates widely and has been successful in gaining funding awards at national and international levels. Her research group works on a range of cold plasma bioscience and sustainable food processing projects. Current research is supported through SFI Investigator, SFI-UKRI/BBSRC and SFI US-Ireland Tripartite awards, Department of Agriculture Food and Marine FIRM, Irish Research Council, 乐天堂app下载 Royal Irish Academy as well as Enterprise Ireland awards. She was designated as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science based on her rankings within 乐天堂app下载 top 1% of highly cited researchers. She is a member of 乐天堂app下载 recently initiated EU COST network in Plasma Applications for smart and sustainable agriculture and 乐天堂app下载 COST network in device-associated infection iPROMEDAI.
RSC affiliations
Editorial Board, Sustainable Food Technology