Dr Nathalie Kliemann
Staff Scientist: Clinical Cancer Epidemiology
Nathalie joined the Generations Study research team as a Staff Scientist in April 2025. Her primary research interests focus on understanding the impact of lifestyle factors on cancer risk and identifying pathways for cancer prevention. She is also interested in the design, management, and analysis of large-scale cancer epidemiological studies.
She received her PhD in Behavioural Science and Health from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL). Following the completion of her PhD in 2017, she was appointed to a three-year postdoctoral fellowship within the Nutritional Epidemiology Group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organization (IARC/WHO). In 2020, she moved to Brazil and continued working with IARC/WHO as a consultant for the Sustainable Lifestyle and Cancer team. From 2023 to 2025, she worked as a Research Fellow in Epidemiology at the Cancer Hospital & Research Centre of Santa Catarina (CEPON), Brazil. During this period, she was also the Principal Investigator of the LifeScreen intervention study in Brazil, for which she received grant funding from IARC/WHO.