Name
Mairead Kiely
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor Mairead Kiely, BSc, PhD, PGDip, is a nutrition scientist and current Head of the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences at University College Cork (UCC). She is also a joint director of the Cork Centre for Vitamin D and Nutrition Research and a Principal Investigator at the INFANT Research Centre (UCC). She is a Registered Nutritionist (Public Health) with the Association for Nutrition. Professor Kiely has more than 20 years research experience in human nutrition and health. She leads an extensive research program, which integrates the main themes of micronutrients, in particular vitamin D, and maternal and child nutrition and development. She has published more than about 200 peer-reviewed papers and several international reports; and has a H-index of 60.
Professor Kiely is a member of the UK Scientific Advisory Committee for Nutrition (SACN) as well as the SACN subgroup on Maternal and Child Nutrition. She was Chair the Irish Section of the Nutrition Society over the last 3 years. Professor Kiely was recently elected to the Royal Irish Academy (2022).
