Marie-Christine Simon    

Junior professor 'Nutrition and Microbiota', PhD, RD
Junior research group leader in the Nutrition cluster Diet-Body-Brain
Institute of Nutritional and Food Sciences (IEL)

Marie-Christine Simon performed in-depth human clinical trials during her PhD at the German Diabetes Center, Duesseldorf, investigating e.g. the impact of probiotics on insulin resistance, incretin effect and inflammatory status in obese and lean healthy subjects. Thus, she has a very profound knowledge on diabetes-related metabolic and immunologic changes and brings her scientific understanding from her studies of nutrition sciences at the University of Bonn. Furthermore, she is certificated as Clinical Research Associate, University Frankfurt, Germany and as Registered Dietician. This and her broad expertise in clinical research, highly qualifies her to perform advanced professional nutritional intervention studies. She has a strong background on microbiome research which she gained during her post-doctoral training at Fredrik Bäckheds Lab, Wallenberg Laboratory at the University Gothenburg. Thus, with her extensive experience she aims for mechanistic understanding of the involvement of the microbiome in the physiology and pathophysiology, covering of key aspects of nutrition and metabolism.

Nutrition, Gut Microbiome, Metabolism

• Member of the Nutrition Committee of the German Diabetes Association, Mentoring for Master and Graduate Students
• German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV)
• German Nutrition Society, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V. (DGE)
• German Association of Home Economists and Nutrition Scientist (VDOE) “Berufsverband Oecotrophologie e.V.”
• German Diabetes Association (DDG)
• German Association of Endocrinology (DGE)
• German Society for Nutritional Medicine e.V. (DGEM)
• German Society for Mucosal Immunology and Microbiome (DGMIM)
• North Rhine-Westphalia Association of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Germany (E&D NRW)