AOAC SPIFAN Stakeholder Panel Meeting Book (March 14, 2019)

STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)

Sean Austin, Nestlé FOS Working Group Chair

Sean Austin received his BSc in Applied Chemistry from the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, UK and received his PhD on the characterization of plant cell wall polysaccharides from the University of Nottingham, UK. After his PhD Sean worked on the development of glycoconjugate vaccines at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, in the UK. In 2000 Sean moved to the Netherlands where he worked at Utrecht University on the characterization of recombinant human glycoproteins and bacterial capsular polysaccharides. He currently works at Nestlé Research in Lausanne. His main responsibilities are to develop and support analytical methods for the analysis of carbohydrate-based

components in food and biological samples. In 16 years at Nestlé he has dealt with the analysis of mono-, oligo and polysaccharides, mostly using (U)HPLC, HPAEC-PAD, and LC-MS. Most recently, his work has focused on the quantitative determination of oligosaccharides.