• Dr Ailsa D. Hocking joined Dr Pitt at CSIRO Food in 1974: they worked there together for more than 40 years. Dr Hocking rose to Senior Principal Research Scientist before she officially retired in 2015, then continued to work as an Honorary Fellow until she finally retired this year. Her principal research work was in the study of foodborne fungi, particularly their physiology and ecology, and also media and methods for their isolation. She also spent many years liaising with the Australian food industry over many and varied food related industrial problems. She served as the mycological Editor of
International Journal of Food Microbiology for a number of years.