Peter Stewart - microbiologist and biotechnologist

Abstract

Peter Stewart joined ANU in 1969 and was Reader in Biochemistry and Microbiology in the Faculty of Science at ANU from 1976 to 1993, when he took early retirement to become a volunteer scientist with a biotechnology program in the UN Food and Agriculture Program in Hanoi, Vietnam. For a number of years subsequently he worked as an independent volunteer with the Vietnamese Agricultural Genetics Institute, and the Department of Genetics at Hanoi University.

In the past decade Peter has worked throughout Australia with the organization Indigenous Community Volunteers, as an adviser in Aboriginal community development and training. He intersperses this with a coordinating role in ANU Emeritus Faculty’s Oral History Program.