Tom O’Connor

Tom O’Connor holds a BSc (1H) degree in Dairy and Food Science (1980) from University College Cork and a PhD degree in Nutrition (1984) from Cornell University.  He then spent three years as a postdoctoral research at Cornell.  Afterwards he worked for a major multinational corporation in the US and Belgium before returning to Cork in 1989 to take up a position as a College Lecturer in UCC.  He was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer.  Tom has extensive teaching duties in both Food Science and Nutritional Science.  He obtained a President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003.  He has over 60 research publications.  His main interests are related to nutrition in the developing world, the nutrition transition, food toxicology, lipid chemistry and fruit and vegetable processing and quality.

Tom is co-supervising the Ethiopian nutrition PhD as well as providing advisory inputs into the methodology guidelines under Work Package 3.