Michelle Williams is a board member at EIT Food. Michelle was previously a research leader at the Department of Horticulture at the University of Aarhus from February 2008 to June 2011. Prior to that, they were group leader of quality systems at The Horticultural and Food Research Institute of New Zealand from December 2005 to February 2008. Michelle was also team leader of quality systems at The Horticultural and Food Research Institute of New Zealand from December 2003 to November 2005, and a senior scientist at The Horticultural and Food Research Institute of New Zealand from May 2000 to November 2003. From September 1994 to April 2000, they were a senior scientist at the Department of Ornamentals at the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences. Michelle has also been a postdoc at the Department of Environmental Horticulture at the University of Florida from May 1992 to August 1994, and at Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation from February 1989 to May 1992.
Michelle Williams has a PhD in Horticultural Science from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Horticultural Science from Lincoln University (NZ).