Meet our Team

Managing Director

Jennifer Miles-Chan

I am Director of the Human Nutrition Unit at the University of Auckland School of Biological Sciences; Australasia’s only long stay residential nutrition facility with the capability of conducting diet-controlled interventions in order to demonstrate cause and effect relationships between diet, health and disease.

Founding Director

Sally Poppitt

Professor, and Chair in Human Nutrition University of Auckland, School of Biological Sciences, Auckland, New Zealand

Co-Director

Garth Cooper

Professor Faculty of Science, Biological Sciences, New Zealand

Senior Lecturer

Ivana Sequeira

Research Fellow

Louise Lu

PhD Candidate

Jack Penhaligan

PhD Candidate

Julia Cree

PhD Candidate

Kok Hong Leiu

PhD Candidate

Theresa Alipia

Research Nurse

William Zhu

HNU Administrator

Shakeela Jayasinghe

Research Assistant

Ms Niamh Brennan