Dr. Pariyarath Sangeetha Thondre has an MSc in Biotechnology from Cochin University of Science and Technology and a PhD in Biotechnology from The Central Food Technological Research Institute, India on the topic ‘Microbial production of fructooligosaccharides’. Before her position as a Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, she had experience working in plant tissue culture and analytical food testing laboratories in India and the UK. Since 2014, Dr. Pariyarath Sangeetha Thondre has been working as a senior lecturer in Nutrition. She teaches various modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervises PhD students in Nutrition. She is a Registered Nutritionist and the research lead for the ‘MetabolicTesting’, ‘Glycaemic Index Testing’ and the ‘Food Components and Activity’ testing services offered by the Oxford Brookes Centre for Nutrition and Health (OxBCNH).