Associate Professor
University of Milan, Italy
Dr. Daniela Martini is currently Associate Professor in Human Nutrition at the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS), University of Milan. She is also Secretary of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU).
She previously joined the Human Nutrition at the University of Parma (Italy) as Post-Doctoral Senior Research Fellow (2015-2019). She completed a Master degree in Human Nutrition at the University of Milan (2007) and a PhD in Food Science and Nutrition (2015) at the University Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome. Her expertise includes the development and the optimization of strategies to favour the transition towards healthy and sustainable diets, including aspects related to food regulation (mainly nutrition labelling, nutrition and health claims, front-of-pack), and the evaluation of the role of foods and dietary models in the modulation of health markers (e.g., oxidative stress in in vivo models).
She is author of over 100 publications on peer-reviewed journals and is involved in several national and international research projects.