Alan Robert Mackie

Prof Mackie Has been Head of the School of Food Science and Nutrition in Leeds since 2017 and was co-chair of the successful Infogest COST Action from 2011-2015 (now the Infogest Network) on simulating human upper gastrointestinal tract digestion. This network resulted in a number of high profile publications with high number of citations (> +3000) on the topic. He now focusses on the role of food structure in controlling nutrient and bioactive release during digestion and has over 240 publications with h-index of 66 (Scopus).