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Associate Professor Eileen Gibney is a faculty member in the School of Agriculture and Food Science at University College Dublin (UCD), serving as Deputy Director of the UCD Institute of Food and Health and Director of Executive Education. She is a Funded Investigator with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and contributes to the BSc Human Nutrition program.
Her educational background includes:
- BSc in Human Nutrition from Ulster University
- PhD from the Dunn Nutrition Unit, University of Cambridge (2001)
- MSc in Molecular Medicine from Trinity College Dublin (2003)
Professor Gibney's research centers on personalised nutrition, investigating inter-individual variation in dietary responses and developing innovative technologies for personalised dietary feedback. Her work spans sustainable diets, dairy science, and cardiometabolic health, often through large-scale intervention studies like MyPlanetDiet and Food4Me. She integrates environmental sustainability with nutritional science, focusing on portion size standardization and digital dietary assessment tools.
Her recent publications (2024-2025) demonstrate leadership in sustainable diet research, dairy product health impacts, and AI applications in nutrition. Key trends include methodological innovations for global dietary guidelines, evaluation of dairy matrices on cholesterol metabolism, and development of culturally adapted digital tools like Foodbook24 for diverse populations.
She has secured major funding as Principal Investigator for:
- Food4Me: Pan-European personalised nutrition intervention
- Food for Health Ireland: National food research consortium
- Insight Centre: Data analytics for nutrition and health
- FNS-Cloud: Framework for dietary data reuse
Professor Gibney serves on the Public Health Nutrition sub-Committee of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and is a Trustee of the Nutrition Society of UK and Ireland. She previously served as Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning (2015-2019) and Director of the Irish Association for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (2010-2019).