About

Christian Anumudu is a Commonwealth Scholar and a Food/Industrial Microbiologist with over 10 years of teaching and research experience. His career is diverse, cutting across industry and academia, focusing on themes related to food safety, quality assurance and sustainability. His primary area of research is on the optimisation of bacteriocins for improved stability and activity in foods with a goal to utilise these natural antimicrobial peptides for the shelf-life extension of different foods. Christian has a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, a Master of Science in Advanced food safety and is currently undertaking doctoral research in Biochemical Engineering. He works as a Research Assistant with the HeTa Food Research Centre for Excellence at the University of Birmingham UK where he brings his skills to bear in the Centre’s research on sustainable green packaging and novel technologies for food processing and preservation. Christian has contributed to a large body of scientific publications and is keen to work towards a safe and sustainable global food system future.