Food and Nutrition Team
Food Scientists
Dr Georgios Koutsidis (Associate Professor in Food Science)
- Flavour chemistry and sensory analysis
- Control of dietary components formed during food processing that may have harmful or beneficial effects
Dr Ed Fox (Associate Professor in Food Microbiology)
- Population genetics and ecology of food borne microbial pathogens
- Safety of food production systems
Dr Maria Benlloch Tinoco (Assistant Professor in Food Science)
- Mathematical modelling of growth/inactivation of microorganisms and enzymes
- Food preservation and processin food quality and safety
- Stability of bioactive compounds in food and study of their bioaccessibility
Dr James Henstock (VC Research Fellow / Associate Professor in cellular agriculture)
- Musculoskeletal tissue engineering and 3D cultures of animal cells
- Synthetic growth environments: Applied mechanobiology and novel bioreactor design
- Cultivated meat, bioprocessing and cellular agriculture
Dr Joel Giron Hernandez (Assistant Professor in Food Science)
- Quality control and analysis of foods (physicochemical and analytical determination), LC, GC, IEC
- Food processing and preservation, drying process: kinetic and thermodynamic control
- Valorisation of biomass for obtaining biomolecules for food, nutrition and biomedical applications
Dr Jose Munoz (Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Food Science)
- Kinetics and X-ray Structure of glycoside hydrolases, lyases and polyphenol oxidases.
- Carbohydrate metabolism by the Human Microbiome
- Microbial enzymology for functional food systems
Nutrition Scientists
Dr Daniel Commane (Associate Professor in Nutritional Sciences)
- Functional foods and gut health
- Intestinal microbial metabolites in colorectal cancer
- Microbiome and human health
Dr Jill McKay (Associate Professor in Nutritional Biochemistry)
- Maternal and neonatal nutrition in cancer
- Prediction of disease or late health effects associated with early life exposures
- Expertise in molecular epidemiology and environmental epigenetics including model systems
Dr Iain Brownlee (Associate Professor in Nutritional Sciences)
- Assessing “idealness” of whole diets, menus and meals for human and planetary health.
- Defining dietary intake in children, adolescents and adults.
- Researching how dietary fibre and whole grains affect health.
Dr Jose Lara Gallegos (Assistant Professor in Human Nutrition)
- Nutritional epidemiology: Dietary patterns in health and disease
- Evidence synthesis: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- Biomarkers and outcome measures to characterise the healthy ageing phenotype and the impact of nutritional interventions
Dr Catherine Tsang (Assistant Professor Human Nutrition)
- Polyphenols in cardiovascular and metabolic health
- Phenolics and cognition
Dr Victor Zevallos (Assistant Professor Human Nutrition)
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Nutritional immunology
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Gastrointestinal diseases (coeliac disease, non-coeliac wheat sensitivity, IBS)
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Autoimmune / inflammatory conditions, gut-brain axis.
Visiting Academics
Prof Tim Finnegan (Professor in Sustainable Nutrition)
- Director New Era foods
- Former CSO at Quorn foods
- Alternative protein sources for nutrition and health
Prof Glenn Gibson (Professor in Gut Microbiology)
- Co-instigator of the concept of prebiotics as foods to improve gut health
- Founding member of the International Society of Pro and Prebiotics ISAPP
Members of our team are actively involved in Northumbria’s NUTRAN Human Nutrition Trials group which combines the expertise of the research group with that of researchers in the Department of Sport Exercise and Rehabilitation and the University’s Brain Performance & Nutrition Research Centre.
