Associate Professor
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Dr. Martins has a first degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from Porto University (Portugal), a M.Sc. in Clinical Nutrition from Roehampton University (UK) and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Medicine from Surrey University (UK). She worked at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 2008 to 2021, where she held a Full Professorship position in Obesity and Metabolism since 2019. In 2022 she took an Associate Professor position at the department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham in the U.S.
Dr. Martins’ research focuses on the impact of weight loss, induced by diet, exercise or bariatric surgery, on energy metabolism and appetite control, aiming at understanding relapse in obesity management. Her group has shown that the increased drive to eat and reduced energy expenditure, incuding metabolic adaptation, seen in the reduced-obese state are a normalization towards a lower body weight and not drivers of relapse.
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
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What Do We Know and Not Know About Metabolic Adaptation?
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
10:05 AM – 10:25 AM ET
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
10:25 AM – 10:40 AM ET
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The Plan to Unravel the Controversy
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
10:55 AM – 11:10 AM ET
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
11:10 AM – 11:30 AM ET
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