Dr F.J. Troost

Associate Professor

Food Innovation and Health, Centre for Healthy Eating and Food Innovation, campus Venlo, NUTRIM, Maastricht University

Coordinator MSc Health Food Innovation Management, campus Venlo, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University

Expertises

Nutrition, physiology, food digestion and bioavailability, gastroenterology, prebiotics, probiotics, transcriptomics, gastrointestinal modulation of satiety, obesity research, metabolism, human physiology, scientific writing, academic teaching, coordination academic master program Health Food Innovation Management.

Qualifications: University Teaching Qualification, Licensed for Good Clinical Practice, registered Nutritional Scientist (Dutch Academy for Nutritional Sciences), registered medical physiologist (Dutch association for Medical Physiology), MSc, PhD.

Career history

1997-2003 PhD student & postdoctoral research fellow; dept Human Biology, NUTRIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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2003-2014 Assistant professor dept of Internal Medicine, div. of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, NUTRIM, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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2009 Co-founder of MSc Health Food Innovation Management

Maastricht University Campus Venlo, Venlo, The Netherlands

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2014 - present Coordinator MSc Health Food Innovation Management

Maastricht University Campus Venlo, Venlo, The Netherlands

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2014-present Associate professor

Research leader Food Innovation and Health, Centre for Healthy Eating and Food Innovation, campus Venlo, Maastricht University