DrRebeca Eriksen

Honorary Research Associate

Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine

  • Honorary Research Associate
    Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine
  • Commonwealth Building, Hammersmith Campus, United Kingdom

BIO

I am a Registered Dietitian. I graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Nutrition and Dietetics from Copenhagen university in 2007. In 2010, I studied a MSc in Public Health and Nutrition at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. I completed my PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology at Imperial College London in 2017: Gene-diet interaction and risk of cardio-metabolic health in the Airwave Health Monitoring study – an ongoing longitudinal cohort study of the Great British police force.

I am currently working as a Research Associate for IMI DIRECT Study investigating the influence of diet, metabolomics and risk of diabetes and metabolic health.

Areas of research interest:

Nutritional epidemiology, nutrigenetics and metabolite profiling

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom2 Sep 2013 - 2 Jan 2017

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Medicine

POSITION NAME

  • Honorary Research Associate

FIELDS OF RESEARCH