Nicole Clémence Roy is a Canadian–New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in nutrition and digestive health, including gastrointestinal physiology and microbiome–host interactions.
Her doctoral thesis was titled Protein Metabolism in Growing Barrows Fed Diets Adequate or Deficient in Lysine and was supervised by Jean F.
She was a founding member of the High Value Nutrition National Science Challenge, based at the University of Auckland, and leads the Digestive Health research programme.
[6][5] Through this she is part of a team studying the effect of resistant starch additives to baby food on infant microbiomes, sleep and immune health.
[8][5] As a Fellow of Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Roy is one of 24 experts providing advice to the government agency.