Rolene Bauer is a natural scientist, working at the Institute for Plant Biotechnology in the Genetics Department of the University of Stellenbosch, where she also serves on expert wine-tasting panels in the Food Science department and the Institute for Wine Biotechnology.
Rolene is the Associate Editor of the SA Journal for Enology and Viticulture (SAJEV), serves as peer reviewer for the SAJEV and American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, and has often published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented her work at national and international conferences.
Dissertation: “Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in grape and wine analysis”.