Kieran Michael Tuohy PhD

KIERAN TUOHY received his PhD from the University of Surrey (UK) in 2000. Between 2000 and 2006 he worked as a post doctoral researcher in the Food Microbial Sciences Unit of Professor Glenn Gibson, University of Reading and in 2006, was appointed lecturer in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Reading. He now leads the Nutrition and Nutrigenomics Group at Fondazione Edmund Mach, Trento, Italy (http://cri.fmach.eu/Research/Food-Quality-and-Nutrition/Nutrition-and-Nutrigenomics ) which grew out of the Autonomous Province of Trento funded incoming team project TrentinoGUT. His research focuses on the health effects of diet:microbe interactions within the gastrointestinal tract and has expertise in microbial ecology, fermentation technologies, nutrition, functional food design and testing, metabolomics and metagenomics. He has over 81 international, peer reviewed publications in the area of gut microbiology, a H index of 23, and is co-editor of the book “Diet-Microbe Interactions in the Gut”, Elsevier.