Minor in Fiber Science
Learn how organic and inorganic fibers are used in materials humans interact with every day.
Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas
Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas is a professor fellow at the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health at Cornell Human Ecology. He previously worked as Head, Global Health Initiatives (cross-cutting) team, Office of the Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, Division of Healthier Populations (HEP) and served senior-level positions at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva since he joined in July 2008. He also worked as an active member of the WHO
Julia Finkelstein
Dr. Julia Finkelstein is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the Director of the Maternal and Child Nutrition Program and co-Director of the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health and Cochrane Center and WHO Collaborating Centre at Cornell University. Dr. Finkelstein is the Program
- Dec 12, 2025
- Holistic Human Health
Hanlon advances personalized nutrition through microbiome research
Kalem Hanlon's work sits at the intersection of dietary fiber, the gut microbiome and precision nutrition: a field that explores how genetics, environment and microbiome composition shape individual responses to food.
After experiencing gut issues for much of his life, he became driven to uncover why the same food can benefit one person while offering no advantage, or even discomfort, to another. And when he's not studying how diet shapes microbial health in the Angela