Dr Kathryn Dalrymple is a Lecturer in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at King’s College London. She holds an MSc in Nutritional Sciences from King’s College London and a PhD in Medical Statistics from the Department of Women and Children’s Health, where her research focused on maternal nutrition and early‑life health outcomes. Before her doctoral studies, she worked in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry with Danone Nutricia. Following her PhD, she completed postdoctoral training at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, where she also undertook a PGDip in Applied Statistical Modelling and Health Informatics. She joined King’s as a Lecturer in 2023.

Research interests

Katie’s research focuses on maternal and infant nutrition and its effects on early‑life health, applying nutritional epidemiology and longitudinal statistical methods to population cohorts. She is Principal Investigator on an MRC‑funded national study which aims to evaluate the impact of folic acid fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour on maternal-fetal and child outcomes among UK multi-ethnic populations.

Her work was recognised with the 2024 BNF Drummond Early Career Scientist Award, and she serves as Specialist Statistics Editor, Journal of Nutritional Science, and Statistics Editor, Thorax.

Teaching

Katie teaches across the BSc and MSc Nutrition programmes at King’s. She leads the Research Methods (5MNT0221) module for the BSc Nutritional Sciences programme and contributes to teaching in specialised nutrition, epidemiology, and research skills. She supervises undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral researchers.