Simon Langley-Evans is a British scientist who is Emeritus Professor of Human Nutrition at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

Education

He obtained his BSc in Biochemistry and Microbiology from

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It has six schools, 21 academic departm ...

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

in 1986. His PhD was from the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

(1990).

Career

Langley-Evans was the head of the University of Nottingham School of Biosciences between 2016 and 2021. Langley-Evans was the winner of the Nutrition Society Silver Medal in 2005. In 2012 he was awarded a DSc from the University of Nottingham in recognition of his contribution to research into the early life origins of adult disease. His principal contribution was the development of experimental models to test the hypothesis that variation in maternal nutrition during pregnancy could programme long-term health and disease. In addition to publishing more than 150 papers in scientific journals and has contributed to several books on early life programming as editor and author, Langley-Evans is the author of an academic textbook entitled Nutrition, Health and Disease: A Lifespan Approach, of which the third edition was published in 2021, and is the editor-in-chief of the

Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics The ''Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering nutrition science as it relates to humans. It was founded in 1982 as ''Human Nutrition. Applied Nutrition'', which was one of two journals that ...

. Outreach work to further understanding of nutrition science has included participation in I'm A Scientist Get Me Out Of Here and provision of specialist advice for a children's book.

Selected publications

(open access) (Cited 412 times, according to Google Scholar. ) * * *

References

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