T J Higgins
Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Agriculture, Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Australia
Dr TJ Higgins is an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO Agriculture. His major research focus is the application of gene technology for plant improvement. He is particularly interested in protecting food legumes from insect pests and enhancing the nutritional quality of plant products for feed and food uses. Most of his current work is aimed at increasing food security in Africa and India.
Born in Ireland, TJ’s first degrees were in agricultural science from the National University of Ireland. He gained his PhD from the University of California, Davis, USA and travelled to Australia as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University. Shortly after, he joined CSIRO Plant Industry, from which he recently retired as a Chief Research Scientist and Deputy Chief.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
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