Prof. Dick Fitzgerald
Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences, University of Limerick
Tel: +353 61 202598
Fax: +353 61 331490
dick.fitzgerald@ul.ie
Education and employment history
BSc in Biochemistry
PhD protein chemistry/enzymology
Post-doctoral Research Associate - Food Science Department, North Carolina State University, USA and University College Cork.
Senior Research Officer, Chemistry Department, Teagasc, Moorepark.
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor (since 2003) at the Department of Life Sciences, University of Limerick.
Research interests
food protein ingredients,
functional food ingredients/nutraceuticals (bioactive peptides),
food protein chemistry/biochemistry,
enzymatic hydrolysis of food proteins,
enzymatic cross-linking of food proteins and their hydrolysates
role of starter exopeptidases in food protein hydrolysate debittering
milk protein polymorphism.