Name
Alysha Thompson
Role
PostDoc Researcher
Dr Alysha Thompson is a Research Fellow at the Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems within the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast. She is a qualified nutritionist and holds an MSci degree in Food Science and Nutrition from Queen’s University Belfast. She recently completed her PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology, where her research focused on plant-based diets and their role in chronic disease risk. Alysha’s work emphasises the importance of diet quality, particularly the consumption of bioactive compounds like flavonoids, and their contributions to health outcomes. Her research utilises large epidemiological datasets, such as the UK Biobank, to investigate dietary patterns and their impacts on both physical and mental health, offering robust evidence for population-level dietary recommendations.
