Julie Lovegrove is a Professor of Human Nutrition and is the Head of the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition at the University of Reading and the Deputy Director of the Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR). She also sits on a number of external committees including the Government's Scientific Advisory Committee for Nutrition (SACN) and she is the Chair of the Accreditation Committee for the Association for Nutrition (AfN).