Leigh Schmidtke

Personal profile

Leigh is the Director of the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre at Charles Sturt University and was appointed to this role in 2018 having filled the role of Acting Director from September 2016. Leigh has an extensive background in analytical chemistry relating to grape and wine analysis, wine production systems and wine microbiology. During his PhD on Micro-oxygenation of red wine he helped develop novel data modelling algorithms in the field of chemometrics. Since 2011 chemometrics and metabolomics has been a feature of Leigh's research and collaborations. Complex data analysis, metabolomics, rapid methods of assessment determining the impact of abiotic and biotic factors upon grapevine and plant performance, berry composition and wine style are some of his research interests.

Research Interests

Metabolomics
Oenology
Viticulture
Data Integration

Education/Academic qualification

Oenology, PhD, Charles Sturt University

University Teaching & Learning, Graduate Certificate University Teaching and Learning, Charles Sturt University

Microbiology, Masters of Applied Science (Research), University of Tasmania

Clinical biochemistry, haematology, microbiology, Bachelor Applied Science (Medical Laboratory Science), University of Tasmania

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Research Output 2003 2019

655 Citations
16 h-Index
60 Article
5 Conference paper
3 Commissioned report
2 Chapter in textbook/reference book
9 More

3 Citations (Scopus)

A GC-MS untargeted metabolomics approach for the classification of chemical differences in grape juices based on fungal pathogen

Schueuermann, C., Steel, C., Blackman, J., Clark, A., Schwarz, L., Moraga, J., Collado, I. & Schmidtke, L., 01 Jan 2019, In : Food Chemistry. 270, p. 375-384 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

grape juice

Metabolomics

Vitis

metabolomics

Pathogens

1 Citation (Scopus)

Analytical strategies for the measurement of different forms of Cu and Fe in wine: Comparison between approaches in relation to wine composition

Kodoudakis, N., Schmidtke, L., Bekker, M., Smith, M., Smith, P. A., Scollary, G., Wilkes, E. N. & Clark, A., 15 Feb 2019, In : Food Chemistry. 274, p. 89-99 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Wine

wines

sulfides

Sulfides

solid phase extraction