Dr Anne Marie Henihan has been appointed as the new centre director of Dairy Processing Technology Centre (DPTC), the Enterprise Ireland centre hosted at the University of Limerick.

The DPTC is an industry-academic collaboration with a research agenda in dairy processing and innovation.

Henihan is a graduate from the University of Limerick with a PhD in waste management and renewable energy.

Dr Anne Marie Henihan.

She has more than 15 years of experience working in research, development and innovation at the interface of industry and academia.

She has held strategic leadership positions within the DPTC since 2016, firstly as the strategic development officer, and recently as interim centre director.

In that role, she steered the centre in securing funding for a second phase of DPTC research.

As the new centre director of DPTC, Henihan’s key priority will be to ensure that the centre delivers innovative impacts for the dairy industry.