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Prof. Stanton graduated from University College Cork (Ireland) with BSc and MSc degrees in Nutrition and Food Chemistry, and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Bournemouth University (UK). She continued her research with Johnson & Johnson (UK), and as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University Medical Center (USA). She is currently a Senior Principal Research Officer at Teagasc Food Research Centre (Ireland) and a Principal Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland. In 2016, she was appointed as Research Professor at the College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork (Ireland). Prof. Stanton has received a large number of honors and awards such as the 2010 IDF Elie Metchnikoff Award in Microbiology which recognizes and celebrates outstanding scientific discoveries in the fields of microbiology, biotechnology, nutrition, and health. She was also the 2020 Recipient of The American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) Distinguished Service Award in recognition of unusually outstanding and consistent contributions to the welfare of the dairy industry. She was admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May 2019, Ireland's leading body of experts in the sciences and humanities. Prof. Stanton has made outstanding contributions to nutrition and microbiology, in particular in the areas of probiotics, nutritional aspects of dairy foods, infant gut microbiota, and bioactive lipids. For five years in a row (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021), she has been recognized in Web of Science by Clarivate Analytics as a highly cited researcher ranking in the top 1% by citations in her area. She has published 498 peer-reviewed original research and review articles and these publications have accumulated 27,325 citations since her first publication in 1987 and an H-index of 89 (Searched from Scopus).

Probiotics, Functional foods, Dairy, Infant gut microbiota, Bioactive lipids