Kamélia is a nutritionist. She is also a 2nd year student in the master's degree in nutrition in the nutrition department. His research interests focus on public health and more specifically on the consumption of ultra-processed foods and beverages. She thus wishes to create tools that would make it possible to monitor consumption in order to eventually inform nutrition practice and public policies.

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For her master's thesis, she will conduct a pilot study for the development and initial validation of a tool that will allow rapid discrimination between different consumer profiles of ultra-processed foods and beverages. For this project, Kamélia will work with the nutrition department of the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal and will rely on the recruitment of individual members of the UdeM community. The data collected through his pilot study will allow him to revise and finalize his instrument for the "official" validation study of the instrument, which will be funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR).

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Kamélia holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a bachelor's degree in nutrition from the University of Montreal. A member of the OPDQ, she works as a nutritionist in a private clinic and is very interested in individuals and their relationship with food. In her practice, she relies on teamwork between herself and her clients, in order to offer them nutritional advice adapted to their bio-psycho-social reality and compatible with the achievement and maintenance of healthy lifestyle habits at long term. She also works as a research and teaching assistant in the nutrition department of UdeM and, on her own, develops conferences addressing the link between diet and physical and mental health.