Raphaëlle Jacob, RD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition
University of Guelph

Raphaëlle Jacob is a Registered Dietitian and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph. She earned a PhD in nutrition from Université Laval in 2022. Through methodological, epidemiological, and interventional studies, she has developed expertise in eating behaviours and their complex associations with obesity, in both children and adults. Her current research focuses on understanding how the development of obesity-associated eating behaviours can be prevented in children, with the aim of informing precision nutrition interventions for childhood obesity prevention. She also has extensive expertise in validation studies, having led the development and validation of questionnaires to assess eating behaviours in adolescents and adults.