North-West University

I hold a B.Sc in Health Sciences with a major in Human Movement Science and Nutrition, which I completed in 2005, followed by an honours degree in Nutrition in 2006, both from the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education. Subsequently, I enrolled for a master's degree in Nutrition in 2006 at the North-West University (NWU), where my MSc built upon the haemostasis research of my honours project. After completing my master's degree, I continued with a PhD in Nutrition, investigating the dietary and genetic determinants of the cardiovascular disease risk factor homocysteine, as well as gene-diet interactions influencing this protein. I received the Unilever Nutrition Award for the best oral presentation on Nutrition Research at the South African Nutrition Congress in 2010, where I presented my nutrigenetic findings on alcohol in relation to homocysteine. Following my PhD, I participated in a staff exchange program of the European South African Partnership for Nutrition Research and conducted research on vitamin D status in the elderly at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. While there, I attended several bioinformatics and personalized medicine workshops and a nutrigenetics/genomics course. Since 2010, I have been employed as a permanent lecturer in the School of Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences’ Nutrition department at NWU, and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2012 and to associate professor in 2018. I have taught 16 contact modules within Nutrition and Dietetics degrees, and have been the module owner of 8 with class sizes ranging from 1 (for a post-graduate module) to 324 (for an undergraduate module). I have received two institutional excellence awards (2013 and 2019), partook in the online teaching learning award programme (2021) and was awarded a NWU Open Education Resource fellowship for 2021-2022. I have co-authored a book chapter entitled: "Open educational resources’ likely contributions to education and implications for self-directed learning". I have been the co-supervisor of 3 MSc students (passing cum laude), supervisor of 2 MSc students (1 passing cum laude), assistant/co-promotor of 4 PhD students and promotor of 2 PhD candidates (1 graduated; 1 submitted on 29 November 2022). Currently, I am guiding one masters and 1 doctoral student (main promotor of 1) that will be delivered in the future. I have acted as internal and external examiner for 10 candidates and an arbitrator for 1 MSc. I have 27 publications in reputed journals, including 23 international and 1 national original research papers, 1 international and 2 national reviews, and 1 paper currently under review (view publications list at https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=EMoJta8AAAAJ). My work has been cited 393 times, and I have an h-index of 11 and an i10-index of 11 on Google Scholar, Scopus 10 and Web of Science 10. I have given 3 national and 4 international first authored and 5 national and 8 international co-authored conference presentations. One of my presentations, as mentioned before, and that of a post-graduate student were awarded prizes for the best research addresses. I hold a National Research Foundation rating of Y2 from 2016 and C2 from 2022. I have served as an abstract reviewer for the XXVI International Fibrinogen Workshop 2016, which was held in South Africa and organised by a committee that I was part of. Furthermore, I have held leadership roles in professional organisations, including treasurer and vice-chair of the Northern Branch Council of the Nutrition Society of South Africa. I was also part of the organising committee of the Nutrition Congress 2018, which was the 27th Congress of the Nutrition Society of South Africa and the 15th Congress of the Association for Dietetics in South Africa. I have been invited to act as a reviewer for the International Congress of Dietetics (ICD2020/21) and the Nutrition Congress 2023. I am an active member of organizations such as the African Society of Human Genetics and the International Society of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics. I have contributed to the peer review process for 38 manuscripts, resulting in 31 verified reviews. You can view my peer review record at https://publons.com/researcher/3119924/cornelie-nienaber-rousseau. My contributions to the field of Thrombosis are noteworthy, as I have been invited to serve as a Review Editor for Thrombosis Journal, an international Springer publication. Additionally, I am a Topic Editor for a special issue of the Thrombosis section of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, titled "Rising Stars in Thrombosis 2022", which has been merged under the new name "Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine: Rising Stars 2022". Currently, I am a Guest Editor for Applied Sciences for the Special Issue "Novel Screening Methods for Heart Disease".