Research Interests

My research focuses on synthesising and analysing nutrition data and evidence to inform healthier, more sustainable and equitable diets. Key interests include:

• the interplay between the healthiness, environmental impact and affordability of diets

• drivers and barriers to adopting healthy and sustainable food swaps, especially among young adults
• the prevention, treatment and determinants of childhood and adolescent obesity
• food insecurity and dietary inequalities
• ultra-processed foods and food biodiversity
• evidence synthesis methods, including AI-assisted systematic reviewing

Activities

• Public Health Nutrition (Cambridge University Press), Editorial Board Member, 2022–Currently

• Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (Elsevier, USA), Editorial Board Member, 2018–2026
• International Journal of Public Health, Associate Review Editor, 2020–2021
• The COMO Project, international childhood-obesity evidence project, Founder and Lead, 2021–Currently
• Lead, Women in STEM group, RedGlobalMX, 2020–Currently

Supervision

• 1 PhD student.

• Supervised 25+ MSc students, seven of whom published their MSc work in high-impact (Q1) journals.

Teaching

• Currently coordinating the RN5008 & RN5011 course: Assessment of Nutritional Status

Research Outputs

• Löfstedt, A., Scheliga, B., Aceves-Martins, M., & de Roos, B. (2025). Seafood supply mapping reveals production and consumption mismatches and large dietary nutrient losses through exports in the United Kingdom. Nature Food, 6(3), 244-252.

• Aceves-Martins, M., Löfstedt, A., Moreno-García, C. F., Zandstra, E. H., Wanders, A. J., & de Roos, B. (2025). The measurement of dietary species richness reveals that a higher consumption of dietary fibre, fish, fruits and vegetables, is associated with greater food biodiversity in UK diets. Public health nutrition, 28(1), e76.
• Aceves-Martins, M., Lofstedt, A., Godina Flores, N. L., Ortiz Hernández, D. M., & de Roos, B. (2024). What environmental metrics are used in scientific research to estimate the impact of human diets?. Nutrients, 16(18), 3166.
• Ofori-Boateng, R., Aceves-Martins, M., Wiratunga, N., & Moreno-Garcia, C. F. (2024). Towards the automation of systematic reviews using natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning: a comprehensive review. Artificial intelligence review, 57(8), 200.
• Aceves-Martins, M., Bates, R. L., Craig, L. C., Chalmers, N., Horgan, G., Boskamp, B., & de Roos, B. (2023). Consumption of foods with the highest nutritional quality, and the lowest greenhouse gas emissions and price, differs between socio-economic groups in the UK population. Public Health Nutrition, 26(12), 3370-3378.
• Aceves-Martins, M., Denton, P., & de Roos, B. (2023). Ready meals, especially those that are animal-based and cooked in an oven, have lower nutritional quality and higher greenhouse gas emissions and are more expensive than equivalent home-cooked meals. Public Health Nutrition, 26(3), 531-539.
• Aceves-Martins, M., Bates, R. L., Craig, L. C., Chalmers, N., Horgan, G., Boskamp, B., & de Roos, B. (2022). Food-level analysis to identify dietary choices with the highest nutritional quality and lowest greenhouse gas emissions and price. Frontiers in nutrition, 9, 851826.
• Aceves-Martins, M., Bates, R. L., Craig, L. C., Chalmers, N., Horgan, G., Boskamp, B., & De Roos, B. (2022). Nutritional quality, environmental impact and cost of ultra-processed foods: a UK food-based analysis. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(6), 3191.

Grant applications

·         Title: RESAS ITGF - B6 - RQ4a Understanding the Scottish food supply chain

o    Years/Dates active: 01/04/2022-31/03/2027

o    Funder name (e.g., UKRI, RESAS, Wellcome): RESAS

o    Grant/Award Title: Grant (RG16320)

o    Financial amount: £908,194.47

o    Your specific role (PI, Co-I, named researcher): Co-I

·         Title: RESAS ITGF - B6 - RQ5b Drivers and barriers for adopting healthy and sustainable food swaps in young adults

o    Years/Dates active: 01/04/2023-31/03/2027

o    Funder name (e.g., UKRI, RESAS, Wellcome): RESAS

o    Grant/Award Title: Grant (RG16322)

o    Financial amount: £921,377.90

o    Your specific role (PI, Co-I, named researcher): Co-I