Kieran M Tuohy

Kieran Tuohy is Professor of Energy Metabolism and Microbiome at the School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds. He is a microbiologist working in the field of nutrition and his research focuses on how microbiomes both within the gut and along the food chain impact on human nutrition, health and disease risk. He has a particular interest in whole plant foods, fermented foods and their bioactive components, and how they modulate the intestinal microbiota for improved host health. He joined University of Leeds in February 2022, and before that led a team of microbiologists, nutritionists and bioinformaticists at the Nutrition and Nutrigenomics Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy for 10 year. Between 2006 and 2010, he served as lecturer in Food Metabonomics at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Reading, and before that worked as a researcher in the laboratory of Professor Glenn Gibson at Reading. He received his PhD from the University of Surrey in 2000 under the supervision of Professors Martin Adams and Ian Rowland. He holds an MSc in Environmental Microbiology from the University of Aberdeen, and BSc in Industrial Microbiology from University College Dublin, Ireland.