Experience

Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Toxicologist

  • Aug 2016 - Present



Ica Drinks

• Sole trader

  • Oct 2013 - Present

  Import wholesale and retail of alcoholic drinks (wine and spirit), one person business. Mainly providing local restaurants with selected wines and spirits from Europe and Latin America...cheers! Import wholesale and retail of alcoholic drinks (wine and spirit), one person business. Mainly providing local restaurants with selected wines and spirits from Europe and Latin America...cheers!



Pierre Pouliquin Pictures

• Photographer

  • 2002 - Present

  I do photography mostly as an enthusiastic amateur, but have work published. I do photography mostly as an enthusiastic amateur, but have work published.



Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Toxicologist

  • Nov 2014 - Jul 2016



Food Standards Australia New Zealand

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Dietary risk assessment coordinator

  • Dec 2009 - Nov 2014



The Australian National University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow-Medical research at The John Curtin School of Medical Research

  • May 2003 - Dec 2009

  Design, coordinate and implement research aiming at a better understanding of the calcium transport function in the healthy and diseased muscles, particularly in the heart and skeletal muscles.The ultimate goal is to enable improvement of the population’s well being through better health.Key achievements:• Demonstrate and characterize functional modulation of ryanodine receptors by Homer • Establish similarities in skeletal and cardiac receptors modulation by Homer• Publish various papers in international journals• Communicate results at conferences• Obtain funding• Establish and test new hypotheses• Develop new collaborations overseas, provide collaborators with purified proteins• New cell lines• First functional evidence, in Australia, for the ryanodine receptor from Drosophila• Lead or participate in four projects • Design, express, purify and demonstrate functionality of new mutant of the ryanodine receptor

• Post-doctoral Fellow at The John Curtin School of Medical Research

  • Aug 2001 - Apr 2003

  Key Achievements:• Express and affinity purify GST-FKBP12, purify FKBP12• Affinity purify the solubilised ryanodine receptor using GST-FKBP12• Clone and express various mutants of the ryanodine receptor, characterise the mutants• Map the binding site of FKBP12 in the ryanodine receptor sequence• Publish various papers in international peer review journals• Communicate results at conferences



Feast- France

• DLO

  • 2002 - 2009

  Deputy liaison officer of the Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation (Feast) for the John Curtin School of Medical Research (2002-2009) Deputy liaison officer of the Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation (Feast) for the John Curtin School of Medical Research (2002-2009)



University of Ferrara

• Research
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Post-doctoral Fellow EU-TMR founded fellowship

  • Mar 1998 - Jun 2001

  Key Achievements: • Publish in international peer review journals • Communicate results at conferences • Produce an extensive library of new ryanodine receptor mutants (more than 60 mutants), characterise the mutants • Pharmacological characterization of mutants • Develop a new technique to determine if protein segments span the cell membrane; propose a new experimental model of the ryanodine receptor structure Key Achievements: • Publish in international peer review journals • Communicate results at conferences • Produce an extensive library of new ryanodine receptor mutants (more than 60 mutants), characterise the mutants • Pharmacological characterization of mutants • Develop a new technique to determine if protein segments span the cell membrane; propose a new experimental model of the ryanodine receptor structure



Ulm University

• Germany
• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-doctoral Fellow EU-TMR founded fellowship

  • Jan 1997 - Feb 1998

  • Description of the functional differences between “normal” and malignant hyperthermia-susceptible ryanodine receptors • Better understanding of the disease malignant hyperthermia • Production of scientific communications at conferences and Pflugers Archiv 1998, 435 (6): 34-35 • Work independently; establish new collaboration and secure funding. • Description of the functional differences between “normal” and malignant hyperthermia-susceptible ryanodine receptors • Better understanding of the disease malignant hyperthermia • Production of scientific communications at conferences and Pflugers Archiv 1998, 435 (6): 34-35 • Work independently; establish new collaboration and secure funding.



Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc-France

• PhD Student

  • Oct 1991 - Jun 1996

  Primary Responsibilities: • Developing new technologies • Performing experiments • Learning to work independently • Reviewing literature and communicating results • Teaching plant physiology: setting up and teaching of tutorial and lab. work for 2nd year students (300 hours of teaching). Assessment of the students (correction of reviews and homework, giving marks) • Attending seminars for pedagogical training Key Achievements: • Establish new methods for studding membrane transport systems • Identify a new nitrate transport system; provide a detailed functional description of the system, including pharmacological characterization. • Publish various papers in international peer review journals • Develop hypothesizes regarding the molecular identity and physiological role of the new transport system. Those hypotheses have since been verified by others.