Health problems associated with obesity are a major healthcare challenge. Effective interventions and successful commercial weight loss programmes to help people lose weight already exist. However, most people re-gain the weight they lose – weight loss maintenance is really difficult.Researchers already know that weight loss maintenance (WLM) depends on changing behaviours. There are many techniques available to help people change their behaviour in the long term but we still don’t know which of these techniques work best for WLM or why. We also don’t know how different social and healthcare contexts influence the effectiveness of different techniques. To better tackle obesity and being overweight, we need to learn more about how different people change their behavior to maintain their weight loss - this is the main research aim of NoHoW.

NOMAD is a European Centre of Excellence, funded by the European Union's H2020 programme. NOMAD creates, collects, stores, and cleanses computational materials science data, derived from the most important materials science codes available today. In addition, the NOMAD Laboratory CoE develops tools for mining this data in order to find structure, correlations, and novel information that could not be discovered from studying smaller data sets. Together, the large volume of data and innovative tools will enable researchers in basic science and engineering to advance materials science, identify new physical phenomena, and help industry to improve existing and develop novel products and technologies.Within NOMAD, my role is to provide administrative support to the team and lead dissemination and communication activities.

Edit scientific manuscripts

Analytical method transfers for testing of new API products

Developed hydrogen peroxide biosensor

Developed hydrogen peroxide biosensor

Developed capillary electrophoresis method

Developed capillary electrophoresis method