Lynn Vanhaecke

Professor Lynn Vanhaecke is a full-time Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast, affiliated with the Institute for Global Food Security. Her research leverages high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) for untargeted metabolomics, focusing on biomarker discovery for diet-related Western diseases, food safety, and environmental contamination applications.

Her primary research interests include:

• Biofluid metabolomics for biomarkers of diet-related conditions
• Tissue metabolomics and DNA adductomics linking meat consumption to Western diseases
• Environmental metabolomics for contamination studies
• Food metabolomics for safety and quality assessment

Analysis of her 2024-2025 publications reveals a dominant focus on veterinary metabolomics—particularly feline chronic kidney disease—and methodological innovation in LC-MS data processing. Her work integrates machine learning for early disease detection and expands into wildlife conservation biomonitoring using non-invasive steroidomics.

Scientific awards:

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She actively supervises PhD students on projects spanning red meat toxicology, cow's milk allergy biomarkers, Crohn's disease fibrosis detection, adolescent stress physiology, bola amphiphile production, and pediatric precision medicine. Her funded research includes the completed REIMS-based food traceability project (2019-2020) as Principal Investigator, targeting high-end food consumer trust.

Professor Vanhaecke operates within Queen's Institute for Global Food Security, driving metabolomics applications for food authenticity, environmental health, and clinical diagnostics through HRMS technology development.