Ana Rodriguez-Mateos
King's College London
Biography
Dr. Ana Rodriguez-Mateos is an Assistant Professor in Nutrition at the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine of King’s College London. She received her BSc degree in ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ at the University of A Coruña (Spain), and obtained her PhD and conducted her postdoctoral studies at the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences of the University of Reading, UK. She then worked as a Research Group Leader at the Division of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine of the University of Dusseldorf in Germany, before joining King’s College in 2016. Her research aims to investigate the impact of plant food bioactives on cardiometabolic health, with a strong focus on understanding the bioavailability, metabolism and cardiovascular health benefits of polyphenols. Her expertise includes development and validation of analytical methods for identification and quantification of phytochemicals in foods and biological samples and performance of randomized controlled trials with cardiovascular outcomes. She is a member of the ÀË»¨Ö±²¥, Nutrition Society and the American Society for Nutrition.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Food & Function