Tell us a bit about you Nardia piercing blue cheese I am Australian and finished a science degree here in Australia in 1992, at a time when there were few jobs for undergraduates.  I was offered a PhD position in 1993 and finished that in 1997, then headed off to the University of Warwick in the UK and worked in microbiology, though not in dairy.  As much as I liked microbiology, academic life wasn’t for me; I loved the bench work and learning new things, but I had just turne