Hannah Holscher

Dr. Hannah Holscher is a Professor of Nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she also serves as Associate Director of the Personalized Nutrition Initiative and is a member of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Her research integrates clinical nutrition, microbiome science, and computational biology to investigate the impact of diet on human health. Dr. Holscher has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and leads multidisciplinary research projects funded by government agencies, foundations, food commodity boards, and private industry. She has held leadership roles in the American Society for Nutrition. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP), the American Gastroenterological Association’s Gut Microbiome Research & Education Scientific Advisory Board, and as an academic advisor to the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (IFANS) Carbohydrate Committee. She is also an Associate Editor for Nutrition Research and a member of the editorial board for The Journal of Nutrition.