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Catalina Cuparencu
  • Rolighedsvej 26

    1958 Frederiksberg C

Personal profile

Short presentation

My core research lays in the development of biomarkers of food intake as dietary assessment tools, from discovery to implementation, striving to increase precision in nutrition studies. I have a broad experience in metabolomics and in conducting human intervention studies. 

Roles within NEXS:

  • Member of the Study Board for Food, Nutrition and Physical activity educations
  • Co-founder and chair of the network: The Power of Food (KU-Initiative)

Roles outside NEXS:

  • Board member of Clinical Metabolomics (CLIME.DK) - nutrition outreach

Current research

Ongoing:

  • Shift2Health: prevention of obesity in shift workers, EU Horizon, co-PI Danish arm (https://shift2health.eu/)
  • HotFacets: a Danish trial on the effects of moderate alcohol intake, co-PI
  • Biomarkers of food intake

Past:

  • PREVIEW: prevention of diabetes through lifestyle interventions, EU Horizon, PhD fellow responsible for metabolomics analyses (https://preview.ning.com/)
  • FOODBALL: food biomarker alliance - discovery, review, validation strategy for dietary biomarkers (JPI HDHL), affiliated PhD fellow 

Teaching

Courses:

  • Bioactives Food Components and Health (MSc course): course responsible and main teacher
  • Metabolomics (MSc course): course co-respomsible and teacher.
  • Tools and Techniques in Nutrition Research: teacher

Supervision:

Supervising PhD, MSc and BSc students within nutrition, metabolomics, biomarkers, diet-microbiome interactions, omics integration.

 

Education/Academic qualification

MSc Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen

Aug 2011Nov 2013

Award Date: 11 Nov 2013

BSc Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.

Sept 2003Jul 2008

Award Date: 11 Jul 2008

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