Professor Alice Stanton is a clinician-scientist.
Current roles include; Professor of Cardiovascular Therapeutics at the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Consultant concerning Healthy Sustainable Diets.
She served on the Committee developing “Ireland’s Agri-food Strategy to 2030”, and as an Assembly Member for the Horizon Europe Cancer Mission. She is a Member of the Irish Climate and Health Coalition, the World Action against Salt, Sugar, and Health (WASSH), Meat Technology Ireland, and the Scientific Council of World Farmers Organisation.
She has authored in excess of 150 peer-reviewed published papers (Scopus h-index 60), and delivered many lectures concerning evidence-based healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Recently, she was lead author on a Lancet letter, which robustly questioned the reliability of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 collaborators’ estimates of deaths attributable to unprocessed red meat.
Agricultural engineering (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, UPC, 1991) and PhD in agricultural engineering from the University of Lleida (1995). He has been Head of Postharvest Technical Service at the Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA) from 2002 until 2018, when he became the Chief Executive Officer of IRTA. As a researcher, he has been involved in 37 national and international research projects and has published several articles in journals of scientific impact and dissemination. He has carried out research stays in several centers in the United States, Portugal and New Zealand. From the Postharvest Technical Service at IRTA, he has had constant interaction with the private sector and he has been involved in more than 20 major contracts and three patents.
Licenciado en Tecnología y Gestión Alimentaria. Desde 2010 que formo parte del Programa de Calidad y Tecnología Alimentaria del IRTA (Instituto de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentarias). Mis funciones se enmarcan en proyectos de investigación, contratos, formación y asesoramiento técnico a empresas en temas relacionados con la mejora y desarrollo de productos a partir de fuentes de proteína alternativas, en tecnologías de procesos (especializado en extrusión) y en el desarrollo de productos cárnicos (frescos, cocidos y curados). Dentro del ámbito de la docencia ha participado en cursos y jornadas técnicas para la transferencia del conocimiento a empresas de la industria alimentaria. Forma parte del panel de degustadores del IRTA entrenado por la evaluación y/o caracterización sensorial de productos alimenticios. Ha realizado tareas de coordinación de las plantas piloto IRTA (equipamientos, calidad (RSIPAC/RGSEAA…) así como las tareas de coordinación del Curso Internacional en Tecnología de Productos Cárnicos, del Curso en Tecnología de Análogos Cárnicos y del International Course in Dry Cured Meat Products.
Licenciada en Periodismo por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, cuenta con un Máster en Periodismo Digital por la Universidad Antonio de Nebrija.
Desde su llegada a Interempresas Media en 2013, ha sido la coordinadora editorial de publicaciones especializadas en el sector del vino, el cárnico, la alimentación y la industria del pescado.