Prof Edith Feskens

She is a professor in Global Nutrition at Wageningen University (Netherlands). She was trained as a nutrition scientist and epidemiologist, and has >30 years’ experience in nutritional epidemiology. Until 2005 she worked at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and was involved in various programmes on obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. She has a strong interest in research methodology, and is involved as Principle Investigator in several European research projects on e.g. glycemic index, sugars and sweeteners, and food metabolomics. Since 2006 she is involved in research and educationin low and middle income countries, including intervention as well as observational studies. So far she has supervised 45 PhD students towards completion of their thesis; she has >480 publications in international peer reviewed journals and h-index of 87.