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Catia Martins, PhD, RD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Dr. Martins has a first degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from Porto University (Portugal), a M.Sc. in Clinical Nutrition from Roehampton University (UK) and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Medicine from Surrey University (UK). She worked at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 2008 to 2021, where she held a Professorship position in Obesity and Metabolism since 2019. In 2022 she took an Associate Professor position at the department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham in the U.S.
Dr. Martins’ research focuses on the impact of weight loss, induced by diet, exercise or bariatric surgery, on energy metabolism and appetite control, aiming at understanding relapse in obesity management. Her group has shown that the increased drive to eat and reduced energy expenditure, incuding metabolic adaptation, seen in the reduced-obese state are a normalization towards a lower body weight and not drivers of relapse. Additionally, her research group has also that the appetite responses commonly seen following diet-induced weight loss, with increased ghrelin secretion and subjective feelings of hunger, are absent or reduced when participants are ketotic, even with weight losses as large as 17% of initial body weight.

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