Dr Anastasia Z. Kalea is an Associate Professor in Teaching Nutrition and Dietetics at the UCL Division of Medicine, UK. She has over 20 years of research and teaching experience in academic institutions in the US and the UK. She is an external examiner and reviewer for undergraduate nutrition and dietetics programmes in the US, UK, and Greece.
Dr Kalea is a Registered Dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. Her research interests focus on metabolic inflammation and associated molecular nutrition pathways, on trace mineral metabolism, on nutrigenetics, precision nutrition and on public health focusing on food sustainability themes, and she has presented her work in numerous national and international conferences.
Dr Kalea leads postgraduate and undergraduate teaching at UCL for the MSc in Clinical and Public Health Nutrition, MSc in Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition, and the BSc in Nutrition and Medical Sciences. She is the Programme Director for the MSc course in Obesity and Clinical Nutrition at UCL.