Carmen Piernas is a Nutrition scientist and research lecturer at NIHR, University of Oxford. Piernas research is focused on  prevention and management of non-communicable chronic disease through dietary improvements, in particular, obesity and cardiovascular disease. She is an Associate Editor at the Editorial Board of Public Health Nutrition (Cambridge University Press) since 2019. 

She completed BSc in Biology and MSc Biomedical Sciences from the University of Murcia (Spain) and a PhD in Nutrition and Epidemiology from UNC Chapel Hill (North Carolina, USA).