Negar Chahibakhsh

Negar Chahibakhsh serves as a Guest Researcher in the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen, with expertise spanning nutrition science, clinical therapy for metabolic disorders, and advanced metabolomics research. Her work integrates national nutrition program leadership with cohort-based investigations into dietary patterns and health outcomes.

Her research focuses on food patterns and health outcomes, metabolomics in health and diseases, and diet-health interactions, employing sophisticated statistical methods to analyze complex relationships between nutrition, metabolic signatures, and chronic conditions like obesity and diabetes. Specialized interests include obesity-brain gene interactions and bioinformatics applications in nutritional epidemiology.

Recent publications demonstrate methodological diversity across systematic reviews on nutraceuticals (e.g., almond supplementation), sex-specific metabolic analyses in insulin resistance, and environmental toxicology studies. Her work consistently leverages large-scale datasets like the COPSAC cohort to identify dietary influences on anthropometric and metabolic health markers.

As an active member of the COPSAC research team, she contributes to longitudinal studies examining early-life dietary exposures in children and adolescents. Her collaborative projects integrate nutritional epidemiology with metabolomic profiling to develop evidence-based interventions for metabolic disorders, particularly through investigations of dietary patterns, metabolomic profiles, and their interactions with anthropometric measures.