Associate Professor
King's College London, United Kingdom
Dr. Rodriguez-Mateos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences of King’s College London. Her research aims to investigate the health benefits of plant foods and phytochemicals, with a strong focus on understanding the bioavailability, metabolism and cardiovascular health benefits of dietary polyphenols. More recent interests include the investigation of the role of the gut microbiome on the health benefits of phytochemicals, and the development of biomarkers of food intake using metabolomic approaches. Her expertise includes development and validation of analytical methods for the analysis of foods and biological samples using LC/GC-MS and performance of randomized controlled trials with cardiovascular outcomes. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal Food and Function and a member of the Editorial Board of Nutrition and Healthy Aging. She is a Registered Nutritionist, fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and member of the UK Nutrition Society and American Society for Nutrition.