Prof. Dr. Ingeborg A Brouwer is a professor of Nutrition for Healthy Living at the Department of Health Sciences and the Amsterdam Public Health (APH) research institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She currently also acts as head of the Department of Health Sciences. She trained as a nutritionist at Wageningen University and registered as a nutritional scientist at the Netherlands Academy of Nutritional Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Medical Sciences at the Catholic University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 1999. In 1999, she started to work as a post-doc and later as a project leader for the Wageningen Centre for Food Sciences (WCFS, currently named TI Food and Nutrition). Since 2006, she has held a tenured position at the Department of Health Sciences of the VU University Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the effects of nutrition on health and sustainability. Between January 2010 and March 2012, she was the chair of the Science Committee of the EMGO+ Institute. She is also a board member of the Talma Institute and a member of the Program Committee of the HBCD program of the APH research institute.
