Mensa's World Gathering 2021

Stephan van Vliet
Postdoctoral Associate
Duke University School of Medicine


Dr. Stephan van Vliet is a nutrition scientist and metabolomics expert in the Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. van Vliet earned his Ph.D. in kinesiology and community health as an ESPN Fellow from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received postdoctoral training in the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. van Vliet’s research is performed at the nexus of agricultural and human health. He routinely collaborates with farmers, ecologists, and agricultural scientists to study critical linkages between agricultural production methods, the nutrient density of food, and human health. Dr. van Vliet uses metabolomics and proteomics techniques to study the presence of bioactive compounds in the food matrix and their impacts on human metabolic health. His work has been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Scientific Reports, the Journal of Nutrition, and the Journal of Physiology.

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