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David's work is concerned with sustainable and healthy diets, and how behaviour change may be accomplished in all parts of the food system. He is currently studying the pathways to healthy and sustainable diets in Scotland. Using a wide toolkit of qualitative methods, David is unpicking the barriers, whether real or perceived, to diet change.

Previously, he has worked in the University of Aberdeen Environmental Modelling Group, looking at agricultural practices in China and Ethiopia.

Renata is a research fellow at the Rowett Institute with an interest in using analytical chemistry tools like LC-MS combined with omics sciences, such as metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics, to study metabolism and nutrition in metabolic diseases, as well as food safety. Her background is in exercise science, using metabolomic and lipidomic approaches to understand how exercise changes the metabolism of people with chronic conditions like obesity and type 2 diabetes.

The research of Jules Griffin and his team focuses on the application of analytical chemistry to study metabolism and nutrition in metabolic diseases. His group has developed and applied metabolomics and lipidomics tools to investigate aspects of the metabolic syndrome and how nutrition interacts with health across the life course. This has included studies based on cell culture, model organisms, human diet intervention studies and epidemiology.

Oana is currently a research fellow at the Rowett Institute, working on a project in the 2022-27 SRP that is aiming to optimise approaches to changing food practices and eating behaviour in low-income populations via social prescribing to reduce health inequalities. She has extensive knowledge of behaviour change theories, intervention development, experience in developing assessment tools and research experience demonstrating cross-disciplinary integration.

Anneli is a keen advocate for nutrition and building global healthier food systems. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Rowett Institute and is determining how the UK seafood production and food supply chains could be better aligned with consumption and dietary recommendations.

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Magaly is a research fellow at the Rowett Institute with expertise and interest in nutritional interventions, healthy lifestyles, and health policies for building a better and sustainable future. She is very interested in using data and new technologies (such as Artificial Intelligence) to drive innovation in nutrition and health. She uses nutrition-relevant data and meta-data to frame knowledge and enhance understanding of current nutritional problems and environmental sustainability challenges and looks to communicate and inform citizens and policy effectively.

Shashika is an Applied Economist at the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include Consumer Demand Analysis, Food and Agricultural Economics, and Econometric Modelling.

Michelle is the Head of Knowledge Exchange, Impact and Communications at the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen. She is also the SEFARI Gateway knowledge exchange broker for the food and drink research delivered by SEFARI.