Alie de Boer, Ph.D. (A.)
Alie de Boer is Associate Professor in the field of nutrition and food information at Campus Venlo (FSE) of Maastricht University. She studies how scientific evidence is generated and used in food policy and legislation and how such evidence-based approaches affect the implementation and application of legislation dealing with food safety, nutrition and sustainability of the food system. She conducts qualitative, interdisciplinary research into nutrition, law, health sciences and policy studies to gain insights into the risk analysis cycle and its role in food policy and food law. In 2017, she founded the Food Claims Research Centre, a centre of expertise on functional foods and food law.
Alie teaches different courses related to nutritional sciences and food law in the Liberal Arts and Sciences bachelor programme University College Venlo and gives (guest) lectures on nutrition and health claims and other food law aspects. She currently chairs the Maastricht School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Board of Examiners.
Expertises
Risk analysis; risk assessment; NAMs; food safety; nutrition; nutrition and health claims; novel foods; nutrivigilance; European food law; nutritional sciences; functional foods.
Career history
Alie de Boer studied Nutrition & Health at Wageningen University and after obtaining her bachelor’s degree, she enrolled in the master's programme Health Food Innovation Management at Maastricht University. In 2015, she obtained her PhD on the Interaction of food and medicine in effect and law at the department of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University. Her thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Aalt Bast (dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Ellen Vos (dept. of International and European Law Faculty of Law).
From December 2015 she has been active at Campus Venlo of Maastricht University, where she established the Food Claims Research Centre (formerly known as the Food Claims Centre Venlo). She currently works as Associate Professor nutrition and food information and is PI of the Food Claims Research Centre at UM's Campus Venlo.