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Professor and Chair at the University of Leeds, UK; previously Head of Group at Nestle Research Center, Lausanne, and Institute of Food Research, Norwich. PhD in Biochemistry from University of Sheffield, UK. Research interests in how dietary polyphenols are absorbed and the mechanisms by which they reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease/diabetes, especially effects on sugar metabolism. He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific papers, is ISI/Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher with h index of 76 (Web of Science), has supervised 46 previous and current PhD students, and has been involved in over 25 human intervention studies. He is current holder of a European Research Council Advanced Grant and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and previously was Editor-in Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Food and Function, and organiser and chairman of 4th International Conference on Polyphenols and Health in Harrogate, UK.