Sally Poppitt

Sally Diana Poppitt is a New Zealand nutrition academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland where she holds the Fonterra Chair in Human Nutrition since June 2012.
Biography.
Poppitt is originally from Cambridge, England. Her 1988 PhD thesis at Aberdeen University was titled " 'Energetics of reproduction and overwintering in some insectivorous mammals' ", supervised by Paul Racey and John Speakman FRS.. After graduation, she worked for Dunn Human Nutrition, both in Gambia and University of Cambridge and then moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor. She is the founding director of the University of Auckland’s Human Nutrition Unit. Poppitt was also named Director of Clinical Trials Development in Protemix, a biotechnology spinoff company from the university from 2006.