Biography:

I am a Research Associate Professor in Nutrition & has been Director of National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Dean of Faculty from 2010- End of 2015, and President of Iranian Nutrition Society (INS) 2011- End of 2015. I was the head of WHO- Collaborating Centre for Nutrition Training and Research & WHO-EMRO regional advisor (2010-2014) and a member of the National Board of Nutrition and Academy of Medical Sciences, Iran. I have published over 66 publications and have been serving as a member of the editorial board of Journals of Nutrition and Food Sciences Research and Frontiers in Nutrition and reviewer of several reputed Journals.

I completed PhD in the field of clinical nutrition from Kings College London in 2004. Besides research and educational activities, I have already had a number of consultative and administrative responsibilities at NNFTRI, such as Vice-director for Research, Head of Research Ethics’ Committee and National Clinical Nutrition Knowledge and guidelines, Member of several Scientific/Organizing Committee of international Congress, and reviewer and/or editor of journals: IJEM, NSFT, J Nut, IJCN, BMC Nut, PHN, BJN, AIM, IJPM, AJCN, Frontiers in Nutrition and some other National Journals. I have over 66 publications that have been cited over 1450 times, i10-index: 32.