Honorary/Past Members
- Dr Brigitte Awamaria (London Metropolitan University)
- Dr Pilar Botey-Salo (Lecturer, London Metropolitan University)
- Dr Claudio Scotti (Senior Lecturer, University of East London)
Dr Brigitte Awamaria
As a mature student, I entered higher education in 1996 at London Metropolitan University, through a foundation year and progressed to a BSc in Food and Nutritional Science. After graduation in 2000, while working full time at LondonMet, I undertook a part time research and was awarded the degree of PhD in December 2010 for my thesis "Developing Starter Cultures for the Optimisation of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Fermentation" (London Metropolitan University, 2010). Still working at LondonMet, my main activities now involve preparation for Microbiology practical classes running, supervising BSc and MSc project students and Microbiology modules tutoring.
Dr Pilar Botey-Salo
I was born in a village by the sea, near Barcelona. I graduated as Biologist in 1993 from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and after working for a while in Spain I joined LondonMet as an undergraduate to study Food Science. I found Food Microbiology very interesting and after graduation in 2000 I became a Research Assistant in the MRU and gained the degree of PhD with a thesis entitled “Some aspects of survival of Salmonella on the shell of eggs” (London Metropolitan University, 2006). I was subsequently appointed to a lectureship in the University, lecturing principally to Science Extended Degree Foundation Year students and I also supervise final year projects, mainly focused on the microbiology of fomites.
I am currently on maternity leave following the birth of my second child.
Dr Claudio Scotti
Claudio left LondonMet in 2009 to take up a Senior Lectureship at the University of East London. However, he remains in contact with the MRU and his other colleagues in SHS and we see him quite often!
