Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) was established to advise HDHL on all scientifically and technologically relevant issues.

About the Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board consists of nine top researchers in the field of Nutrition and Health, and is chaired by John Mathers. Members are elected based on their individual research experience, not as representatives of their organizations. The expertise of the SAB is equally divided between the following three areas of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) – three scientists for each research area:

  1. Citizens, Diet, and Behavior
  2. Food for Health
  3. Diet, Health, and Disease

The Management Board (MB) requests advice from its advisory boards on their strategic and implementation plans, as well as on communication and dissemination of its results.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board

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Research Area 1: Citizens, diet and behaviour

Janas Harrington

School of Public Health, University College Cork

Wendy Van Lippevelde

Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Marking, Innovation and Organisation, Research Unit Consumer behaviour

Paula Varela-Tomasco

Nofima, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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Research Area 2: Food for health

Mark Bücking

Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME

Tiny van Boekel

Wageningen University & Research

Pete Wilde

Quadram Institute Bioscience
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Research Area 3: Diet, health and disease

Ellen Blaak

Maastricht University Medical Centre+

Karsten Köhler

Technical University of Munich

John Mathers

Newcastle University, Human Nutrition Research Centre