Postgraduate students

Stephen Odero is a Dairy Scientist with a Bachelor’s degree in Dairy Technology and Management from Egerton University, Kenya. Starting off his carrier in the dairy industry, he worked as a cooling plant manager at Mau Narok Farmers’ Cooperative Society, focussing on milk quality control and sales of raw milk. He then worked as a dairy products quality consultant before enrolling for his master’s. As an undergraduate, his project focussed on the effects of exposing yoghurt culture (Streptococcus salivarius subsp. Thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. Bulgaricus) to homogenisation pressures. His Master’s research, supported by RUFORUM through TAGDev Program, now focuses on the influence of locally available dairy feeds on the quality and processability of different milk products