Opening Academic Year

Ciarán Forde is Professor and Chair of the Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour group at Wageningen University & Research, one of five chair groups within the Division of Human Nutrition and Health. His aim within the chair is to bridge the gap between food technology, nutritional science, and eating behaviour. One of his research projects is the long-term multi-partner project Restructure, which focuses on the level of energy intake from ultra-processed foods.

Guido Camps is a senior researcher and Associate Professor at Wageningen University & Research and the OnePlanet Research Center, specialising in nutrition and Artificial Intelligence, sensor development for determining food intake, and MRI imaging of digestion. He studied Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht, Artificial Intelligence in Nijmegen, Data Science/Information Technology at Harvard University, and completed his PhD in nutrition at Wageningen University & Research.

Maartje Poelman is Associate Professor in the Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles group at Wageningen University & Research. She studied Health Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and obtained her PhD in the Department of Prevention and Public Health. Her research focuses, among other things, on the influence of the living environment on food choices and the resulting health outcomes.