Professor Mike Gibney

Contact Details

Professor of Food & Health

School of Agriculture, Food

Science & Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Science Centre

Belfield Dublin 4

Tel: +353 1 7167801

Email: Mike.gibney@ucd.ie

Academic Background

Dr. Gibney graduated from UCD with an MAgrSc in 1971 working on lipid metabolism in lambs and took up a teaching fellowship at the University of Sydney's Veterinary School and was awarded a PhD in 1976 for work on the digestive physiology of the neonatal lamb. From there he moved to human nutrition with a lectureship at the University of Southampton Medical School in 1977 and then returned to Dublin to take up a post at Trinity College Dublin in the Department of Clinical Medicine as professor of nutrition. During that time he served as Dean (Vice President) of Research. Twenty three years later in 2006, he moved to UCD to take up the post of Professor of Food and Health. He served on the EU Scientific Committee for Food from 1985 to 1997 and chaired the working group on nutrition. From 1997 to 2000 he served on the EU Scientific Steering Committee and was chair of its working group on BSE.

Research Interests

His research interests are in two main categories. One is laboratory-based and at present his focus is on the application of metabolomics technology to human nutrition and he has responsibility for the development of metabolomics in the European Nutrigenomics Organisation (www.nugo.org). He has a major research interest in diet, lipids and the metabolic syndrome and am coordinator of a large multi-centre EU project in this area (www.nutrition.org.uk). The second area is in public health nutrition which is centred around several national food consumption surveys and their use for the development of evidence-based dietary guidelines (www.iuna.net) and he also uses this survey data in modelling risk of exposure to food borne chemicals (www.creme.tcd.ie).