Search for an IGFS researcher/PhD supervisor - by subject
Subject areas in alphabetical order (click on a researcher's name to link through to their profile):
Animal Behaviour and Welfare
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |||
| Prof Niamh O'Connell | Niamh.oconnell@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future; Global Food Integrity | Animal health; environmental enrichment; lameness; biosecurity; broiler chickens; pigs; dairy cows | Dr Maeve Palmer, Dr Mary Baxter | ||
| Dr Gareth Arnott | g.arnott@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Dr Asad Javied |
Animal Health
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof Irene Grant | i.grant@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the future; Food, Nutrition and Health | Paratuberculosis/Johne’s disease; Tuberculosis; zoonotic pathogens; diagnostic method development | Dr Antonio Foddai |
Animal Physiology
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof David Michael Scantlebury | Farms of the Future | Ecology; animal behaviour; energetics; life history |
Aquatic Biology
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Grand Challenge |
Keywords |
| Prof Peter Leavitt | Global Food Integrity; Food, Nutrition & Health |
Lake and river biology; biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and water; paleoecology; environmental change and society; coupled human-biophysical systems |
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| Dr Sarah Helyar | Farms of the Future; Global Food Integrity |
Marine and freshwater genomics; population genetics; eDNA; metagenomics; fish; amphibians |
Behavioural Sciences
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |||
| Prof Moira Dean | Global Food Integrity; Food, Nutrition & Health |
Obesity; consumer behaviour; food choice; risk perception; attitudes to food; behaviour change; risk communication |
Dr Michelle Spence; Dr Tony Benson; Dr Fiona Lavelle; Dr Stephanie Brooks; Dr Niamh O'Kane; Dr Claire McKernan |
Bioanalytics / Biotoxicology
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof Rudolf Krska | Global Food Integrity; Farms of the Future; Food, Health & Nutrition |
Mycotoxins; organic trace analysis; plant and microbial metabolites; LC-MS/MS; plant-fungi-metabolomics; urine biomarkers |
Biogeochemistry
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof Andy Meharg | aa.meharg@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Arsenic; atmospheric; plants; rice; soil; waters | Dr Yogesh Gupta |
Diagnostics (Micro, Nano)
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |||
| Dr Cuong Cao |
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Global Food Integrity | AMR; food toxins; nanomaterials; nanoparticles; biosensors; plasmonics; biosensors; vibrational spectroscopy; SERS; LSPR | Dr Terry McGrath; Dr Seong Ying Choi |
Diet
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Dr Anne Nugent | a.nugent@qub.ac.uk | Food, Nutrition and Health | Dietary surveys; dietary intake; food and nutrient intake; food chemical intake; exposure assessment | |
| Prof Jayne Woodside | j.woodside@qub.ac.uk | Food, Nutrition and Health | Fruit and vegetables; Mediterranean diet; dietary patterns; dietary biomarkers; diet and disease prevention; public health nutrition | Dr Roisin O'Neill, Dr Sarah Brennan, Dr Sarah Moore, Dr Charlotte Neville, Dr Sinead Watson |
| Prof Helen Roche | Food, Nutrition and Health; Global Food Integrity |
Nutrigenomics; inflammation and metabolism; functional foods; metabolic-inflammation; dietary fatty acids; 'nutrition, obesity and diabetes’ |
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| Dr Emma Allott | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Obesity, diet and cancer; adipokines; adipose tissue distribution; breast cancer; cholesterol; inflammation; lifecourse; lipids; metabolism; molecular epidemiology; prostate cancer; statins |
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| Prof Michelle McKinley | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Obesity; weight loss; weight management; dietary interventions; behaviour change; behavioural sciences; mHealth; eHealth; type 2 diabetes; cardiovascular disease; pregnancy; postpartum; schoolchildren; quantitative; qualitative |
Dr Dunla Gallagher | |
| Dr Laura McGowan | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Nutrition, diet & behaviour change; obesity; preconception; pregnancy |
Ecological/Evolutionary Genomics
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof Chris Creevey | chris.creevey@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition and Health; Global Food Integrity | Microbiome; computational biology; evolution; ecology; environmental genomics; AMR; novel therapeutics; genomics | Dr Karen Siu Ting, Dr Benjamin Thomas |
Ecology (Soil, Aqua, Marine)
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Dr Tancredi Caruso | t.caruso@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Soil; plant-soil interactions; biodiversity; ecosystem functioning; climate change | |
| Prof Peter Leavitt | P.Leavitt@qub.ac.uk | Global Food Integrity; Food, Nutrition & Health | Lake and river biology; biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and water; paleoecology; environmental change and society; coupled human-biophysical systems | |
| Dr Paul Caplat | Farms of the Future | Landscape ecology; modelling; macroecology; invasive plants; range-shifts; life-history traits | Dr Dina Sadykova | |
| Dr Deepak Kumaresan | Farms of the Future | Ecosystem biology; microbes, plants and environment; global change biology; microbiome; ecosystem health; climate change; microbial eco-physiology; methane biotechnology |
Economics (environmental, food, agricultural)
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |||
| Dr George Hutchinson |
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Farms of the Future; Global Food Integrity; Food, Nutrition and Health |
Consumer behaviour and choice modelling; agricultural economics and food marketing; economics of human nutrition and health; economics of outdoor recreation; physical activity and health; agricultural and food-policy analysis; climate change and environmental sustainability (ipcc contributing author) |
Dr Daniel Derbyshire | ||
| Dr Martina Bozzola | Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition & Health |
Environmental economics; agricultural economics (decision making under risk, technology adoption, food and nutrition security); climate change adaptation in agriculture; sustainable value chains; economics of wildlife management; applied econometrics |
Endocrine Disruptors
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Dr Lisa Connolly | l.connolly@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition and Health; Global Food Integrity | In vitro bioassays; toxicology; detection; environment; food; health | Dr Stephen Drain |
Environmental Sustainability
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof John McGrath | j.mcgrath@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Nutrient cycling; biogeochemistry; bioenergy; environmental microbiology; phosphorus cycling; waste treatment; pollution microbiology; microbiome | Dr Jason Chin, Dr Katrina Macintosh, Dr Damian Magill, Dr Luciana Minieri, Dr Magdalena Serkis-Rodzen, Dr Sudhirkumar Shinde |
| Prof Peter Leavitt | Global Food Integrity; Food, Nutrition & Health |
Lake and river biology; biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and water; paleoecology; environmental change and society; coupled human-biophysical systems |
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| Dr Martina Bozzola | Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition & Health |
Environmental economics; agricultural economics (decision making under risk, technology adoption, food and nutrition security); climate change adaptation in agriculture; sustainable value chains; economics of wildlife management; applied econometrics
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Food Integrity (Safety/Security/Fraud)
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof Chris Elliott |
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Global Food Integrity |
Food integrity; food crime; food fraud; toxicology; food safety; food contamination; feed safety; feed contamination |
Dr Simon Haughey; Dr Connor Black; Dr Julie Meneely; Dr Kevin Cooper; Dr Marcia Monteiro; Dr Maeve Shannon; Dr Magdalena Sliwinska-Bartel; Dr Terry McGrath; Dr Claire McVey; Dr Olivier Chevalier; Dr Annalisa Leone; Dr Leon Whiteman; Dr Olufunke Akiyode; Dr Ratnasekhar Ch; Dr Holly Montgomery; Dr Natasha Logan |
| Prof Paul Brereton | Global Food Integrity; Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition and Health |
Food integrity; food value; food education; EIT Food; gamification; engagement; teachers; qualitative survey; schools; educators; social media |
Dr Niamh O'Kane; Dr Stephanie Brooks | |
| Dr Katrina Campbell | katrina.campbell@qub.ac.uk | Global Food Integrity; Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition and Health | Biosensors; diagnostics; food supply chain; toxin analysis; biosecurity | Dr Jordi Nelis; Dr Tatiana Panov; Dr Chikere Nkwonta |
| Dr Mark Mooney | Global Food Integrity | Food contaminants; detection/diagnotics; chemical contaminants; disease diagnostics; mass spectrometry; biosensors |
Dr Anna Gadaj, Dr Ruramayi Nzuma |
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| Dr Tassos Koidis | Global Food Integrity; Food, Nutrition and Health | Food science; authenticity; olive oil; vegetable oil; spectroscopy; chemometrics; big data; analytical methods development; fraud detection; black tea; processing contro; bioactive ingredients; antioxidants; polyphenols |
Gut Ecosystems
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Dr Caroline Meharg | caroline.meharg@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition and Health | Microbiome; microbes; plants; environment; big data | Dr Yogesh Gupta |
| Dr Qiaozhu Su | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Nutritional signaling, metabolic inflammation, mitochondrial and ER stress, microRNA, gut microbiota, metabolic disease, lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory bowel disease |
Dr Yuxin Wu |
Human Milk
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Dr Simon Cameron | Food, Nutrition & Health |
Microbiome; microbiology; molecular nutrition; mass spectrometry; early-life nutrition |
Marine & Freshwater Genomics
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |||
| Dr Sarah Helyar |
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Farms of the Future; Global Food Integrity | Population genetics; eDNA; metagenomics; fish; amphibians | Dr Amanda Naaum |
Microbes, Plant and Environmental
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof John McGrath | j.mcgrath@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Nutrient cycling; biogeochemistry; bioenergy; environmental microbiology; phosphorus cycling; waste treatment; pollution microbiology; microbiome | Dr Jason Chin, Dr Katrina Macintosh, Dr Damian Magill, Dr Luciana Minieri, Dr Magdalena Serkis-Rodzen, Dr Sudhirkumar Shinde |
| Dr Fuquan Liu | Liu F.liu@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition and Health | Plant development; plant/environment interaction; immuno-detection of microbial | Dr Thomas Fleming, Dr Ruramayi M Nzum, Dr Frederic Mineur, Dr Antonio Foddai |
| Dr Caroline Meharg | caroline.meharg@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition and Health | Microbiome; gut ecosystems; big data | Dr Yogesh Gupta |
| Dr Deepak Kumaresan | D.kumaresan@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future |
Ecosystem biology; ecology; global change biology; microbiome; ecosystem health; climate change; microbial eco-physiology; methane biotechnology |
Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | ||
| Dr Christopher Law | c.law@qub.ac.uk | Global Food Integrity; Farms of the Future; Food, Nutrition and Health | Membrane transporters; structural biology; biocatalysts | ||
| Dr Qiaozhu Su | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Nutritional signaling, metabolic inflammation, mitochondrial and ER stress, microRNA, gut microbiota, metabolic disease, lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory bowel disease |
Dr Yuxin Wu |
Molecular Nutrition
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Dr Brian Green | b.green@qub.ac.uk | Food, Nutrition & Health | Nutrition; diet; health; disease biomarkers; dietary biomarkers; metabolomics; neurodegeneration; dementia; diabetes; metabolism; bioactives | Dr William Crowe, Dr Xiaobei Pan |
| Dr Qiaozhu Su | Food, Nutrition & Health |
Nutritional signaling, metabolic inflammation, mitochondrial and ER stress, microRNA, gut microbiota, metabolic disease, lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory bowel disease |
Dr. Yuxin Wu |
Nutrition
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof Jayne Woodside | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Fruit and vegetables; Mediterranean diet; dietary patterns; dietary biomarkers; diet and disease prevention; public health nutrition |
Dr Roisin O'Neill, Dr Sarah Brennan, Dr Sarah Moore, Dr Charlotte Neville, Dr Sinead Watson |
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| Dr Anne Nugent | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Dietary surveys; dietary intake; food and nutrient intake; food chemical intake; exposure assessment |
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Food, Nutrition and Health |
Obesity; weight loss; weight management; dietary interventions; behaviour change; behavioural sciences; mHealth; eHealth; type 2 diabetes; cardiovascular disease; pregnancy; postpartum; schoolchildren; quantitative; qualitative
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Dr Dunla Gallagher | |
| Food, Nutrition and Health |
Nutrition, diet & behaviour change; obesity; preconception; pregnancy |
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| Food, Nutrition and Health |
Obesity; diet and cancer; adipokines; adipose tissue distribution; breast cancer; cholesterol; inflammation; lifecourse; lipids; metabolism; molecular epidemiology; prostate cancer; statins |
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| Food, Nutrition and Health |
Personalised nutrition; preventative healthcare; public health; consumer attitudes and behaviour; AI; big data; digital tech; health informatics; wellness; citizen science; societal engagement |
Obesity
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof Helen Roche | Food, Nutrition and Health; Global Food Integrity |
Nutrigenomics; inflammation and metabolism; functional foods; metabolic-inflammation; dietary fatty acids; 'nutrition, obesity and diabetes’ |
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| Dr Emma Allott | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Obesity, diet and cancer; adipokines; adipose tissue distribution; breast cancer; cholesterol; inflammation; lifecourse; lipids; metabolism; molecular epidemiology; prostate cancer; statins |
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| Prof Michelle McKinley | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Obesity; weight loss; weight management; dietary interventions; behaviour change; behavioural sciences; mHealth; eHealth; type 2 diabetes; cardiovascular disease; pregnancy; postpartum; schoolchildren; quantitative; qualitative |
Dr Dunla Gallagher | |
| Dr Laura McGowan | Food, Nutrition and Health |
Nutrition, diet & behaviour change; obesity; preconception; pregnancy |
Plant Biology
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Dr Johnathan Dalzell | j.dalzell@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Plant parasitic nematodes; parasitic plants; entomopathogenic nematodes; molecular biology; genetically modified crops | Dr Neil Warnock |
Parasitology (Humans and Animals)
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof Aaron Maule | a.maule@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Animal health; disease; infection biology; drug discovery | Dr Paul McVeigh; Dr Erin McCammick; Dr Emily Robb |
| Prof Eric Morgan | eric.morgan@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Veterinary; epidemiology; parasite control; livestock; climate change | Dr Kyriacos Kareklas |
| Dr Mark Robinson | mark.robinson@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Host-parasite interactions; proteomics; molecular parasitology; helminths; liver fluke; rumen fluke | Dr Kathryn Huson |
| Dr Johnathan Dalzell | j.dalzell@qub.ac.uk | Farms of the Future | Plant parasitic nematodes; parasitic plants; entomopathogenic nematodes; molecular biology; genetically modified crops | Dr Neil Warnock |
Systems biology (food)
| Name | Grand Challenge | Keywords | Post-Doc | |
| Prof Gary Hardiman | Global Food Integrity; Food, Nutrition & Health |
Climate change; Systems Biology; Big Omics Data; endocrine disruptors & epigenetic alterations; plasticizers in the environment; bisphenol- A; genomics of marine species; vitamin D & prostate cancer; opioid & food addiction; cystic fibrosis; non-coding RNAs; nutrition & space travel |