Lucinda Black

2023-present: Professor, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin
University

2023-present: MS Australia Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University

2020-2022: MS Australia Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Curtin University

2016-2019: MS Western Australia Posdoctoral Research Fellow, Curtin University

2012-2015: Senior Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute

2006-2012: Research Officer, University College Cork

Professor Lucinda Black is a nutrition scientist and Registered Nutritionist
in the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN) at Deakin
University, Melbourne, Australia.

Lucinda's research spans food composition, vitamin D and nutritional
epidemiology. She leads the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Nutrition Research
Program, which aims to elucidate the role of diet in MS to improve disease
outcomes, and the Bush Tucker-Vitamin D project, which aims to promote vitamin
D sufficiency among Aboriginal people. She works closely with the MS community
and Aboriginal communities to ensure that her research meets their values and
needs.

Lucinda completed her PhD at University College Cork in 2012 investigating
dietary vitamin D in the Irish population. As lead investigator, she holds an
MS Australia Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, NHMRC Ideas Grant and US
National MS Society Project Grant, and has previously held an MSWA
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, MS Australia Project Grant and NHMRC Project
Grant.

Research Groups
https://ipan.deakin.edu.au/research/food-nutrition-and-health