Scientist
Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service
Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans
United States of America
Tel: 504-286-4446
Dr. Gillian Eggleston is a Lead Scientist Grade 15 and Director, Southern Regional Research Center-United States Dept. of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, New Orleans. Dr. Eggleston received her B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1984 from the University of Nottingham, UK, and her Ph.D. in 1989 in Carbohydrate Biophysics from Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK. Her major scientific and commercial accomplishments are reflected in 26 national and international awards, including two FLC National Technology Transfer Awards, the South African Society of Sugar Technologists Talbot-Crosbie Award, four Sugar Industry Technologists (International) Awards, the early and senior USDA-Mid South Area Scientist Awards, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Melville L. Wolfrom Award. Dr. Gillian Eggleston's research intertest includes Sugar and bioenergy pilot plant design and operation, Optimization of industrial applications of commercial enzymes, Development of novel methods to measure insoluble/soluble starch in factory and biorefinery products and by-products, etc.
