Neil Mann

Currently professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Melbourne, Neil Mann was previously Head of the Food Science and Nutrition Department at RMIT University, Melbourne. He has been the director of numerous research projects in the area of food science and human nutrition, including clinical trials involving meat consumption and other food components. He has a special interest in the area of evolution of human food habits, which has culminated in numerous papers on hominin meat consumption and writing a scientific text on evolution and human nutrition, while a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University, School of Anthropology. Professor Mann has been heavily involved in lecturing nutrition, physiology, biochemistry and food science and food systems units to undergraduate students as well as supervising postgraduate students in their research projects. He is a Fellow of the Nutrition Society of Australia and has many nutrition research publications in high level scientific journals and more than 100 papers in national and international conference proceedings.