Martín Correa-Luna

Martín Correa-Luna

Dairy UP Research Fellow | The University of Sydney

Martin completed his BAgSc in the University of Buenos Aires in 2007 and worked as agricultural consultant advising farmers in livestock grazing systems and crops production after completing an internship in Fort Collins, Co. USA in a high performance Aberdeen Angus nucleus breeding ranch. In 2014, he was appointed as research technician by Massey University at the School of Agriculture and Environment in Palmerston North. While holding the full-time job, he completed his PhD in Animal Science in 2019. During this time, his research has been in the area of grazing dairy systems that deliver profitable, environmentally-sound, and socially-acceptable outcomes to the community. Then, he was offered a Postdoc position at INRAE in France to do research on biomarkers to predict feed use efficiency and nitrogen partitioning using databases generated across EU research institutions towards better outcome for both farmers and the environment. Currently, he was appointed as a Research Fellow for the Dairy UP research and development program to join the Dairy Science Group of the School of Life and Environmental Sciences in the University of Sydney.