Marjukka Kolehmainen is Professor of Nutrition (Food and Health) (https://uefconnect.uef.fi/en/person/marjukka.kolehmainen/) at the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition at the University of Eastern Finland. Her expertise is within health effects of diets, foods and food components and structures that she has been studying in acute, short and long term human interventions for over 25 years. Main scientific interest has been in the effects of whole grain cereals, berries and plant based protein sources, and their bioactive compounds from the molecular level to whole body physiology, especially in their effect on inflammation. More recently the focus has been on the health effects mediated via gut microbiota and gut barrier function, also using advanced in vitro gastrointestinal modelling systems.