David A. Mills

David Mills

David A. Mills, Ph.D.

Position Title
Distinguished Professor, Peter J. Shields Chair in Dairy Food Science

Unit
Food Science and Technology

3142 Robert Mondavi Institute - North
Bio

Food Science (2015- )
 

David Mills is a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Food Science & Technology and Viticulture & Enology at the University of California at Davis. Dr. Mills studies the molecular biology and ecology of bacteria that play an active role in gut health or fermented foods and beverages. In the last 23 years Dr. Mills has mentored over 30 graduate students and postdocs generating more than 210 publications, including seminal work on lactic acid bacterial and bifidobacterial genomics. At UC Davis, Dr. Mills has worked to define, investigate and translate the beneficial aspects of human milk and its role in human health. Dr. Mills has previously served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Society for Microbiology and currently serves on the editorial board of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. In 2012 he was named the Peter J. Shields Chair in Dairy Food Science and in 2015 he was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology. Since 2018, he has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics. Dr. Mills’s research has helped launch several startup companies.

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Awards and Honors

2003: American Society for Microbiology - Distinguished Lecturer (formerly Waksman Distinguished Lecturer) 2003-2005

2010: American Dairy Science Association - Cargill Flavor Systems Award

2012: UC Davis - Peter J. Shields Endowed Chair of Dairy Food Science 

2012: American Society for Enology and Viticulture - Best Paper Awardee

2014: UC Davis Medical Center - Deans' Team Award for Excellence in Research

2015: American Academy of Microbiology - Fellow

2016: American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting - Division Group Lecturer

2017: North Carolina State University - Etchell’s Memorial Lecturer

2018: Clarivate Analytics - ISI Highly Cited Researchers

2019: Clarivate Analytics - ISI Highly Cited Researchers

2020: Clarivate Analytics - ISI Highly Cited Researchers

2020: UC Davis Chancellor's Innovation Awards - Innovator of the Year

2021: Clarivate Analytics - ISI Highly Cited Researchers

2022: Clarivate Analytics - ISI Highly Cited Researchers

2022: UC Davis - Distinguished Professor

2023: Clarivate Analytics - ISI Highly Cited Researchers