Assistant Professor
Oregon State University
Anna Hayes, Ph.D. recently joined the Department of Food Science and Technology at Oregon State University (March 2025). She holds a B.S. in food and nutrition science from St. Catherine University (St. Paul, MN, USA), obtained her Ph.D. in food science with a concentration in foods for health and ingestive behavior from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN, USA), and completed postdoctoral research in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA, USA). Her research program at Oregon State University focuses on the characterization and design of foods that affect the gut-brain axis to alter food intake, metabolism, and cognition.