{"id":1123,"date":"2026-05-04T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:04:29","slug":"congratulations-jervee-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/congratulations-jervee-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Jervee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Congratulations to Jervee for submitting her thesis entitled &#8220;Using vibrational spectroscopy to investigate the molecular properties of plant-based food systems&#8221;. Her thesis examined the effects of pulse electric field treatments on plant-based proteins. This included protein meal through to semi-processed food stuffs. Thus far she has published six papers and has won and has won six poster or oral awards at conferences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Jervee is working on another paper through her publishing bursary based on 2D correlation spectroscopy in protein-based systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jervee&#8217;s PhD was funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/riddet.ac.nz\/\">Riddet Insititute<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks to them for giving us such a great student and colleague.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1124\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-celebrating.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1124\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-celebrating-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-celebrating-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-celebrating-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-celebrating-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-celebrating-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-celebrating-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jervee celebrating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1125\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-group-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1125\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-group-2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-group-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-group-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-group-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-group-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-group-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jervee and group 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1126\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-supervisors-Oey-and-Gordon.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1126\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-supervisors-Oey-and-Gordon-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-supervisors-Oey-and-Gordon-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-supervisors-Oey-and-Gordon-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-supervisors-Oey-and-Gordon-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-supervisors-Oey-and-Gordon-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-and-supervisors-Oey-and-Gordon.jpeg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jervee with supervisors Indra and Keith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1127\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-with-group-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1127\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-with-group-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-with-group-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-with-group-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-with-group-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-with-group-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-with-group-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jervee and extended group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1128\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-ringing-the-bell.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1128\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-ringing-the-bell-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-ringing-the-bell-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-ringing-the-bell-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-ringing-the-bell-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-ringing-the-bell-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-ringing-the-bell-1152x2048.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2026\/05\/Jervee-ringing-the-bell.jpeg 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jervee ringing the bell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Jervee for submitting her thesis entitled &#8220;Using vibrational spectroscopy to investigate the molecular properties of plant-based food systems&#8221;. Her thesis examined the effects of pulse electric field treatments on plant-based proteins. This included protein meal through to semi-processed food stuffs. Thus far she has published six papers and has won and has won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}