Alice Elizabeth Benskin is a registered nutritionist with Association for Nutrition in the domain of Nutrition Science and a member of the World Health Organisation’s Fides programme. She has a BSc in Nutrition Science and MSc in Personalised Nutrition, and has worked over the past 10 years in the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education and research.  She is currently senior nutritionist for Nutritank and oversees the Nutrition Medical Education programme, and is also a health coach supporting patients going through the NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme. She did her MSc placement at University of Oxford, where she undertook research investigating breast and bottle feeding nutrition and nociception in neonates with a neonatal neuroscience team at the John Radcliffe Hospital. She is currently an MSc Psychology student at University of Wolverhampton, and also volunteers as clinical nutrition lead for Mind Health for Medical students, a charity supporting student medics mental health, and Nutrition Graduates, supporting new graduates in the field of nutrition and dietetics to thrive in the first few years of their career. She is the founder of Nutrition United, a global network of nutritionists and dietitians working together on charity projects, and doing advocacy work regarding food poverty and nutritional inequalities and health inequities. Prior to this, she was a part of ONE’s youth ambassador programme, Bono’s charity organisation focused on ending world hunger, poverty and health inequalities.

Benskin has a keen interest and passion for research in the area of nutritional psychiatry, and is advocating for the field of nutritional psychotraumatology, which explores the connections between nutrition, mechanisms of chronic stress, acute and complex trauma and biohorology. Aside from  Nutritank, she is a mentor and assessor for Association for Nutrition, and also works in a freelance capacity as a Nutritional Scientist, doing consultancy work. Overall, her ambition is to empower others to live healthier lives using nutrition and lifestyle strategies, contribute to the field of nutritional psychiatry as a researcher, and see more women empowered to pursue careers in research and education in the field of nutritional science.