Our researchers
Meet the academic staff who lead our major research themes and programmes.
Professor Frank Bloomfield
Fetus and newborn, nutrition
Professor Wayne Cutfield
Paediatric endocrinology, nutrition. Director, A Better Start (National Science Challenge)
Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
Evolutionary medicine, developmental epigenetics, and developmental origins of health and disease
Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding
Fetus and newborn, nutrition, neonatal glycaemia, long-term outcomes
Professor Caroline Crowther
Maternal and perinatal health
Professor Mark Vickers
Developmental programming, nutrition
Professor Paul Hofman
Paediatric endocrinology, exercise
Professor Richard Mithen
Nurtition. Chief Scientist, High Value Nutrition (National Science Challenge)
Professor Justin O'Sullivan
Genetics and genome organisation
Professor Katie Groom
Maternal health
Professor Elwyn Firth
Bone health, exercise (effect on obesity, in early childhood and on old age)
Associate Professor Jo Perry
Endocrinology, growth factors
Associate Professor Fiona Lithander
Nutrition
Dr Jacquie Bay
LENScience, DOHaD knowledge translation adolescent populations
Dr Amber Milan
Nutrition
Dr Ben Albert
Paediatric endocrinology
Dr Barbara Cormack
Neonatal nutrition
Dr Anne Jaquiery
Maternal nutrition, intrauterine growth restriction, prematurity
Dr Mark Oliver
Maternal environment, intrauterine growth restriction, prematurity, nutrition for pregnant and young ruminants
Dr William Schierding
Genome mapping, variant detection, RNA-sequencing, methylome epigenetics, metagenomics data
Dr Tommi Vatanen
Microbiome, metabolism, immunity
Dr Chis Pook
Elemental analysis, mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, gas, chromatography, toxicology, biochemistry, chemoinformatics.
Dr Celia Grigg
Midwifery and obstetrics
Dr Eleanor Kennedy
Neonatal factors and early brain development
Dr Nike Franke
Early intervention, normal and abnormal child development, executive functioning, consumer engagement
Dr Tayaza Fadason
Genetics, precision medicine
Dr Farha Ramzan
Nutrition, genetics and metabolic health
Emeritus Professor Michael Heymann
Perinatal circulatory physiology, neonatal cardiology