Honorary Fellows
Honorary Fellowship of the Nutrition Society is awarded to distinguished individuals, on a yearly basis who have made an outstanding contribution to the Society, and for their long term committment to nutritional science.
Professor Sir George Alberti is Chair of Diabetes UK, Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Newcastle. He is also Clinical Adviser on...
Dr Margaret Ashwell has viewed the relationship between food and health from all sides. She has been a Senior Research Scientist with the Medical Research Council, Principal of the Good Housekeeping...
JB has a BSc in Psychology and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of London (Institute of Neurology). He holds the Chair of PsychoBiology in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the...
Director General of the British Nutrition Foundation since 2007; previously the Science Director (1998-2007). Professor Buttriss is a public health nutritionist, specialising in nutrition science...
Professor Susan Fairweather-Tait is Professor of Human Nutrition, Norwich Medical School, the University of East Anglia (UEA). After graduating from Queen Elizabeth College, London, in 1978, she...
Professor Albert Flynn is Emeritus Professor in Nutrition in the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University College, Cork. He has served on the faculty of the University since 1981 and from...
Professor Keith Frayn is Emeritus Professor of Human Metabolism at the University of Oxford.
In the scientific field of nutrition and metabolism, Keith is a highly-respected contributor to the...
Professor Catherine Geissler was appointed Head of Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, King’s College London, in 1990-5 and Professor of Nutrition and Head of the Division of Health Sciences in...
Professor Michael Gibney BAgrSc, MAgrSc, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Food and Health at University College Dublin.
Having graduated from University College Dublin with a MAgrSc in 1971 working on...
From 1972 to 2001 Leif Hambraeus was Professor of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden. Since 2002 he has been affiliated as Senior Professor at the Department of...
Professor Hautvast studied both medicine and social anthropology at Radboud University in Nijmegen. After a training in tropical medicine he worked for a period of three years (1967–70) as medical...
Prof Jeyakumar Henry is presently Senior Advisor, Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation, A*STAR (SIFBI). He spent over 35 years in the UK and arrived in Singapore in June 2011 as...
Professor Alan Jackson was appointed to the first Chair in Human Nutrition in an undergraduate medical school in the UK in 1985. He trained in paediatrics before taking up a post caring for severely...
Professor James trained in science and medicine before organizing public health/nutrition teaching at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He wrote the DH/MRC Obesity Research report,...
Professor Barbara Livingstone [BEd, MSc (Biology), MSc(Human Nutrition), PhD) is Professor Emerita of Nutrition at Ulster University and one of the founding lead academics within the Nutrition...
Professor Mathers is Professor of Human Nutrition, Director of the Human Nutrition Research Centre and Director of the Centre for Healthier Lives in Newcastle University. He was an undergraduate in...
Geraldine McNeill BA MB ChB MSc PhD RNutr (Public Health) FAFN is Visiting Professor of Global Nutrition and Health at the University of Edinburgh. Her interest in nutrition was sparked when she was...
Professor Millward trained as a biochemist (Cardiff, 1966) and worked with Professor John Waterlow, at the MRC Tropical Metabolism Research Unit in Jamaica and at the London School of Hygiene and...
Hilary's research is concerned with the mechanisms for involvement of B vitamins in the pathophysiology of disease, including cancer, and in the development of functional biomarkers of micronutrient...
Professor Ann Prentice is an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow of the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit. She is the former Director of the MRC Elsie Widdowson...
Professor Wim H.M. Saris MD, PhD is Professor Emeritus Human Nutrition at the Department of Human Biology, at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science Maastricht University, The Netherlands...
After graduating with a BSc (Chemistry), BAgr (Agricultural Chemistry) and PhD (Nutrition Biochemistry), from Queen’s University, Belfast, he spent several years (1977-1980) in academia in Australia...
Dr Alison Tedstone is Chief Nutritionist (National Director of Diet & Obesity) with responsibility of diet, nutrition and obesity in the Health and Wellbeing Directorate of Public Health England...
Professor Trayhurn, Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biology at the University of Liverpool, entered nutrition research in 1975 on joining the MRC Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge. His...
Professor Wahlqvist was educated at Adelaide and Uppsala Universities. He is a Consultant Physician and has held chairs in Human Nutrition, Medicine, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Melbourne...
John Webster MA, VetMB, PhD, MRCVS, FNS,FAfN
John Webster, trained as a vet, began a research career with Sir Kenneth Blaxter (KB) at the Hannah Research Institute, Ayr, studying the impact of cold...
Professor Roger Whitehead PhD, FRSB, FRCP, FRCPCH, FAfN, CBE was Director of the MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit at Cambridge and Keneba, The Gambia, from 1973 to 1998.
Prior to that he was Director of the...
Professor Christine Williams BSc, PhD, FAfN, FRSB, FIUNS, OBE is a Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Reading.
Her research is revolves around understanding the impact of dietary fats...
Professor Margaret Gill (Maggie) started her career as an animal nutritionist, studying agricultural science in Edinburgh University followed by a PhD from Massey University, New Zealand in sheep...
Professor Clyde Williams is emeritus professor of sports science at Loughborough University and visiting professor at the newly established University of Suffolk. During his 30 year-long career at...
Chris Seal is Emeritus Professor of Food and Human Nutrition at Newcastle University.
Chris joined the University in 1983 as a Demonstrator in Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition and then spent...