Dr Celia Barril completed her education in France, Ireland (2nd year BSc Erasmus student) and England (1st year Maters' internship) where she received a BSc (Analytical Chemistry major) and a Masters' in Organic Chemistry/Analytical Chemistry.  Her Masters' research projects included synthesis of an anti-cancer compound (University of Kingston-Upon-Thames, England) and enzyme-catalysed synthesis of a glycerol derivative for sugar authentication in wine using quantitative 2H-NMR (University of Nantes, France).

Keen for more travel, Celia undertook her PhD as a Co-tutelle programme between AgroParisTech (France) and the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre at CSU, investigating the chemistry of ascorbic acid and sulfur dioxide as an antioxidant system relevant to white wine. She graduated in 2011 and is now supervising overseas Masters' students, Honours students and PhD students, in projects developing analytical methods and utilising chemistry to understand oxidation processes in food matrices and profiling grape and wine composition.

Celia is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and has taught Chemistry in the School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences at CSU since 2009; she is part of the Chemistry Teaching Team which received a Vice Chancellor award for Teaching Excellence in 2011. Celia was the Chemistry Discipline Leader (2015-2017), and the Program Leader for the Bachelor of Science (2013-2017), before taking on her current role of Course Director for the Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of General Studies (Science), and the Wine and Viticulture courses at CSU. Celia works closely with the Eastern Riverina Science Teachers Association (ERSTA) in order to promote Science, and more particularly Chemistry, to High School students.