Dr Ingeborg Annemar Brouwer

Ingeborg A. Brouwer, MSc, PhD, is professor of Nutrition for Healthy Living with special focus on fatty acids and head of department at the Department of Health Sciences of the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on effects of nutrition on health and environment.

Dr Brouwer is trained as a nutrition scientist at Wageningen University (MSc), The Netherlands. She completed her PhD in Medical Sciences in 1999 at the Catholic University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She worked as postdoc and project leader at the Wageningen Centre for Food Sciences where she led a project on ‘N-3 fatty acids and cardiac arrhythmia’. She was also project leader of the METAHEART project, which was part of the EU SEAFOODplus project. In 2006 she became assistant professor at the Department of Health Sciences VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She became associate professor at the VU University in January 2010 and full professor in 2014. She was co-coordinator and project manager of two large EU consortia (MooDFOOD and PROMISS) and supervised several PhD students. In 2019 she became head of department.

She has published more than 150 scientific publications including papers in international high-impact peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, reviews and invited commentaries.