Food Microbiology & Nutrition

Dara Fitzpatrick graduated with a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin and worked on  an EU framework V postdoctoral research fellowship before taking up a  lecturership in Analytical Chemistry at University College Cork. He is the originator of Broadband Acoustic Resonance Dissolution Spectroscopy and Director of a successful spin-out company that has commercialized his research. He has extensive collaborations with industry and the company has sold instruments to global multinationals such as GSK, Pfizer and Cargill to name a few. BARDS has developed into a platform technology with several applications, particularly in powder analysis.