Lynn Vanhaecke
Lynn Vanhaecke is Associate Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chemical Analysis at Ghent University and holds a 20% appointment at the Institute of Global Food Security at QUB. The chemical analyses of food, biofluids and environmental matrices, the metabolism and biological activity of food and contaminants, and the holistic analysis of small molecules through metabolomics and lipidomics using advanced high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) in relation to human (and animal) health belong to her major research objectives. Her team has a specific interest in optimizing HRMS-based analytical methods and in recent years rapid ambient-ionization based fingerprinting to explore metabolic pathways within the context of food and environmental exposure, food and environment-related non-communicable diseases and exposome research. She is author and co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed international publications and leads/is co-PI within several national and international research programs. Prof. Vanhaecke has so far been the promoter of 20 successfully defended PhDs.
