Professor Jolieke van der Pols is an internationally recognised nutrition scientist known for her research of health impacts and sustainability of foods and beverages.
She leads the design, management and analysis of clinical trials that evaluate foods or supplements and their influence on health and wellbeing, including outcomes such as biomarkers, body composition, microbiome, mental health, and physical performance.
Internationally, she contributes to work that improves methods to evaluate sustainability and health impacts of foods, including for United Nations agencies (FAO, UNEP). Jolieke has a strong interest in the use of precision fermentation for food production. She is a member of the Cellular Agriculture Australia Industry Working Group on Regulation.
Jolieke is Food Innovation Program Lead at the Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy (QUT) and Academic Lead Research at the School of Exercise and Nutrition Science. She holds an MSc in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and a PhD in nutritional epidemiology from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Key capabilities
Clinical trials (foods, beverages, supplements)
Assessing health indicators
Nutritional requirements
Data analysis, research methods for human health studies
Sustainability, life cycle assessment (LCA)
Pulses/legumes
Precision fermentation