STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Peter Torley
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Biosciences and Food Technology
Phone:
+61 3 9925 5095
Email:
peter.torley@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- PhD (Land and Food Sciences), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Bachelor of Technology (Biotechnology) (Honours), Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Teaching
- Sensory Evaluation and Consumer Behaviour (course co-ordinator, lecturing)
- Meat Science and Technology (course co-ordinator, lecturing)
- Grain Technology (course co-ordinator, lecturing)
- Scientific Skills and Communication (lecturing)
- Food Manufacturing: Animal Products (lecturing)
Program Administration
- Senior Program Manager: Food Technology and Nutrition (2016 – present)
- Program Manager: BP199 Bachelor of Science (Food Technology and Nutrition) (2015 – present)
- Program Manager: BP289 Bachelor of Science (Food Technology) / Bachelor of Business (Management) (2015 – present)
- Program Manager: BH099 Bachelor of Science (Food Technology and Nutrition) / Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Hons) (2015 – present)
2016 – present: Associate Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – 2016: Senior Lecturer, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2014 – present: Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
2008 – 2014 Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia.
Afilliated with:
- National Wine and Grape Industry Centre
- Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation
2002 – 2008: The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Senior Research Fellow (Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology)
- Project Manager (Centre for High Performance Polymers, School of Engineering)
- Research Fellow (School of Land and Food Science)
1995 – 2002: Research Scientist, CSIRO (Food Science Australia), Brisbane, Australia
1991 – 1995: Doctoral Student, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland
1989: Visiting Researcher, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
1985 – 1991: Biotechnologist, Meat Industry Research Institute of New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Alu'datt, M.,Rababah, T.,Alhamad, M.,Gammoh, S.,Ereifej, K.,Alodat, M.,Hussein, N.,Kubow, .,Torley, P. (2016). Antioxidant and antihypertensive properties of phenolic-protein complexes in extracted protein fractions from Nigella damascena and Nigella arvensis In: Food Hydrocolloids, 56, 84 - 92
- Oli, P.,Ward, R.,Adhikari, B.,Mawson, A.,Adhikari, R.,Wess, T.,Pallas, L.,Spiers, K.,Paterson, D.,Torley, P. (2016). Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy study of the diffusion of iron, manganese, potassium and zinc in parboiled rice kernels In: LWT - Food Science and Technology, 71, 138 - 148
- Oli, P.,Ward, R.,Adhikari, B.,Torley, P. (2016). Colour change in rice during hydration: Effect of hull and bran layers In: Journal of Food Engineering, 173, 49 - 58
- Longo, R.,Blackmann, J.,Torley, P.,Rogiers, S.,Schmidtke, L. (2016). Changes in volatile composition and sensory attributes of wines during alcohol content reduction In: Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, , 1 - 9
- Al-Rabadi, G.,Hosking, B.,Torley, P.,Williams, B.,Bryden, W.,Nielsen, S.,Black, J.,Gidley, M. (2016). Regrinding large particles from milled grains improves growth performance of pigs In: Animal Feed Science and Technology, , 1 - 8
- Alu'datt, M.,Al-Rabadi, G.,Al-Ismail, K.,Althnaibat, R.,Ereifej, K.,Rababah, T.,Alhamad, M.,Torley, P. (2015). Characterization and biological properties of dry fermented product (jameed) manufactured from cow milk: comparison of sun and freeze drying In: Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, 39, 282 - 291
- Allen, M.,Clark, A.,Schmidtke, L.,Torley, P. (2015). Distillation for the production of fortification spirit In: Handbook of Food Processing and Engineering, Volume I Food Engineering Fundamentals, CRC Press, United States
- Waite, H.,Whitelaw-Weckert, M.,Torley, P. (2015). Grapevine propagation: principles and methods for the production of high quality grapevine planting material In: New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 43, 144 - 161
- Ereifej, K.,Feng, H.,Rababah, T.,Tashtoush, S.,Al-U'datt, M.,Al-Rabadi, G.,Torley, P.,Alkasrawi, M. (2015). Microbiological status and nutritional composition of spices used in food preparation In: Food and Nutrition Sciences, 6, 1134 - 1140
- Adjonu, R.,Doran, G.,Torley, P.,Agboola, S. (2014). Whey protein peptides as components of nanoemulsions: A review of emulsifying and biological functionalities In: Journal of Food Engineering, 122, 15 - 27
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
2 PhD Current Supervisions
Food science and technology, Food processing, Food for the elderly, Grains, Rice, Meat, Wine, Extrusion, Sensory analysis, Consumer preference, Ultrasound processing, Rheology, Texture, Synchrotron, Process modelling, Nutrition