Guido Hooiveld

Guido Hooiveld is an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research, specializing in Human Nutrition and Health. His research focuses on the nutritional systems biology of the intestine as a 'gatekeeper' for nutrient homeostasis, with a particular emphasis on intestinal absorption, gut physiology, and the microbiome. He holds expertise in genomics, transcriptomics, and next-generation sequencing technologies.

Education: BSc in Molecular Sciences (Wageningen University, 1995), PhD in Hepatobiliary Secretion from the University of Groningen (2000). Postdoctoral work at Groningen's Laboratory of Pediatrics (2000–2001), followed by a role in Wageningen's Nutrition, Metabolism & Genomics Group since 2001. Appointed Assistant Professor in 2006.

Research Interests: Dietary fiber fermentation kinetics, microbiome dynamics, intestinal health, and the interplay between diet and gut physiology. Projects include studying the effects of dietary proteins on obesity and cardiometabolic health, as well as developing innovative sampling methods for gut health analysis.

Teaching: Involves courses on food digestion, omics data analysis (BIF31806), and metabolic aspects of nutrition (HNH28305). Supervises MSc theses and internships in Nutrition, Metabolism, and Genomics.

Lab Affiliation: Part of the Nutrition, Metabolism & Genomics Group, focusing on integrating omics data to understand nutrient-gut interactions. Collaborates on projects like the TAPIR study evaluating lipid effects on the microbiome.