Biography - David G. Thomas

David G. Thomas, PhD, Massey University School of Agriculture and Environment, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Dr. David Thomas obtained a Bachelor of Science Honors degree in Zoology from Dundee University in 1990, and a PhD from the Institute of Zoology, which was part of University College London in 1994. He moved to New Zealand in 1995 to take up a two-year Massey University/AgResearch Post-Doctoral Fellowship, and he joined the teaching staff at Massey University in 2003. Dr. Thomas was appointed as Director of the Centre for Feline Nutrition in 2004 responsible for overseeing commercial and applied nutrition research, and has since established research programs in Canine and Equine Nutrition. Currently he is an Associate Professor in Companion Animal Science in the School of Agriculture and Environment.