Professor Neil Mann

Neil is Professor of Human Nutrition in the School of Agriculture and Food Science, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science at the University of Melbourne. Having previously held the position of Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry and head of Food and Nutrition Science at RMIT University for many years, Neil has over 30 years' experience in nutrition research, co-ordinating projects in the areas of long-chain fatty acids, obesity, diabetes, hunter-gather diets and aspects of metabolic syndrome.

He is a respected voice internationally on nutrition, healthy, physiology, biochemistry and food science and has been involved with the Nutrition Society of Australia, the Nutrition Accreditation Committee, the Asia Pacific Region International Life Sciences Institute and the International Diabetes Institute.

Neil has authored of over 80 refereed research papers in high impact factor international nutrition and medical journals, and more than 100 national and international conference proceedings.