Lonneke Janssen Duijghuijsen

Lonneke studied at Wageningen University from Sept 2006 – June 2012, completing both the BSc and MSc Nutrition and Health with a Cum Laude degree. During her studies, she specialized in Nutritional Physiology and Immunological Effects of Nutrition and spent half a year at the Karolinska Institute, for which she received a scholarship from the Swedish Freemurare Barnhuset Foundation. Between September 2012 and December 2016, she executed her PhD thesis within the department of Consumer Science and Health at Wageningen Food and Biobased Research, the division of Human Nutrition & Health, and the department of Human and Animal Physiology at Wageningen University. During her PhD project, Lonneke developed an in vitro preclinical cell model and concurrently a clinical human intervention model to study gut health. She also actively took part in the INFOGEST consortium, with regard to conferences, trainings and method development. After receiving her Doctor’s degree in April 2017, Lonneke shortly continued her career outside academia as a project leader clinical studies at FrieslandCampina. Since two years, she has returned to Wageningen Food and Biobased Research in the group of Food, Health & Consumer Research as a clinical study researcher and project leader, working on a wide range of clinical trials in the field of nutrition and health.