Mary Fewtrell received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Cambridge in 2000. Currently, she is working as a Professor of Pediatric Nutrition at the University College London. Her research spans the key strategic areas of pediatric nutrition, with a particular focus on specific areas: (1) Nutrition and bone health, nutritional programming of bone health, methodological issues relating to the assessment of bone mass in children, and bone health in children with a variety of diseases; (2) Body composition and obesity, primary prevention and treatment, and methodological aspects of body composition measurement in infants and children; (3) Infant nutrition, human lactation, design of infant formula, including health impact of specific ingredients such as LCPUFA, and complementary feeding and the duration of exclusive breastfeeding; (4) Infant growth and its association with later health.
Jonathan CK Wells received his Ph.D. in biological anthropology and nutrition from the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is working as a Professor of Anthropology and Pediatric Nutrition at the University College London. He has supervised 10 Ph.D. students at UCL as a primary supervisor and around 30 students as a secondary supervisor, both in the UK and at overseas universities. He regularly provides lectures to undergraduate and master's courses at UCL, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on pediatric growth, body composition, and energy metabolism, investigating trajectories through the life course and across generations.
