Top Gun

Darrell Donahue is a professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Maine. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from North Carolina State University. With a background in process engineering and industrial statistics in industry and academics, his research interests are in the development of in-process-line sensors as well as quantitative risk assessment.

These projects have been supported by the USDA, NSF, EPA and DOD as well as private industry funding. Dr. Donahue’s experiences related to risk assessment and modeling are: National Academies of Science Committee, Scientific Criteria for safe food (2001-2003); US-EPA, Science Advisory Board, Computational Toxicological Framework for Risk Assessment (2003), Microbiological Risk Assessment for drinking water (2004-present); US Army-CHPPM, task force for anthrax threat models (2003-present); and an AOAC International, Best Practices for Microbiological Methods (2004-2007).