Kim-Anne Lê

Kim-Anne Lê, PhD, is a nutrition scientist with more specific expertise in carbohydrates and macronutrients. She completed her PhD at the Department of Physiology of Lausanne University and her postdoctoral fellowship at the Childhood Obesity Research Center at USC in Los Angeles. For the past 15 years, Dr. Lê’s work has focused on the effects of sugars and their alternatives on cardiometabolic risk markers. Her research experience on this topic goes from human physiology to population studies. She is now leading a research group in ‘Applied Nutrition’ at the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, and dedicates her work to find novel approaches to improve the nutritional quality of products. She has published numerous professional peer-reviewed articles and reviews, and is the co-editor of the textbook “Dietary Sugars and Health”. In addition, she is involved in academic activities as appointed Lecturer at the Swiss Technical School of Engineering Lausanne (EPFL) and National University of Singapore (NUS).