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 2020

755 Citations
18 h-Index
64 Article
10 Poster
5 Commissioned report
5 Conference paper
14 More

Thresholds for Botrytis bunch rot contamination of Chardonnay grapes based on the measurement of the fungal sterol, ergosterol

Steel, C., Blackman, J., Schmidtke, L., Clark, A., Schueuermann, C., Schwarz, L. & Qiu, Y., 2020, In : Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research. 26, p. 79-89 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Botrytis

ergosterol

sterols

grapes

wines

9 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

4 Citations (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

A robust quantitative approach using SPME-GC-MS, identified the volatilome of the biocontrol agent, Aureobasidium pullulans

Yalage Don, S., Steel, C., Gambetta, J. & Schmidtke, L., 2019. 1 p.

Research output: Other contribution to conference › Abstract

Aureobasidium pullulans

volatile organic compounds

biological control agents

Alternaria alternata

ethanol

Assessment of sunburn damage in Chardonnay grapes in relation to leaf removal timing

Gambetta, J., Romat, V., Holzapfel, B. & Schmidtke, L., Jul 2019.

Research output: Other contribution to conference › Poster

File

sunburn

grapes

small fruits

defoliation

leaves

Datasets

Grape image database

Seng, J. (Creator), Ang, K. (Creator), Schmidtke, L. (Creator), Rogiers, S. (Creator), Charles Sturt University, 2018

DOI: 10.26189/5da7a8603c55c

Dataset

Cultivar, site or harvest date: the Gordian knot of Wine Terroir DATASET

Schmidtke, L. (Creator), Antalick, G. (Creator), Antalick, G. (Creator), Suklje, K. (Creator), Blackman, J. (Creator), Boccard, J. (Creator), Deloire, A. (Creator), Charles Sturt University, 2019

DOI: 10.26189/5da7a9823c55d

Dataset