Clinical Dietitian / Nutrition and Home Economist in Nutrition Research

About the role

The Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports (NEXS) at the University of Copenhagen is looking for a Clinical Dietitian or Nutrition and Home Economist to join two large clinical research projects: ON LiMiT (lifestyle modifications in people with type 2 diabetes) and PREPARE CHILD (pre-pregnancy weight loss and childhood overweight). The role sits in the Lifecourse Nutrition and Health research group, supervised by Faidon Magkos and Christian Mølgaard, and involves delivering dietary interventions, supporting participants and helping with recruitment and retention. It is a fixed-term position of 24 months, starting 15 January 2027, with an average of 35 hours per week.

Key responsibilities

• Dietary counselling and intervention delivery: individual and group counselling, support for type 2 diabetes remission, very-low-calorie diets, weight-loss maintenance and long-term healthy eating, and guidance of prospective parents through pre-pregnancy weight loss and pregnancy nutrition.
• Follow-up consultations in person, by telephone and online; monitoring dietary adherence and helping participants overcome barriers.
• Develop educational materials, meal plans, recipes and counselling resources, and assist with dietary intake assessments and data interpretation.
• Participant recruitment: advertising, information meetings, telephone pre-screening, presenting the study and supporting enrolment and scheduling of visits.
• Clinical research: assisting with study visits and assessments, collecting dietary, anthropometric and health data, maintaining study documentation, entering data into electronic research databases and ensuring protocol and ethical compliance.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition, Dietetics, Home Economics Specialist or a related field.
• Authorization as a Clinical Dietitian (or equivalent).
• Experience providing dietary counselling to adults.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to build trust with participants, and excellent organization and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and spoken Danish and English.
• Desirable: experience with obesity, weight management, type 2 diabetes, pregnancy nutrition or maternal health, behavioural and lifestyle interventions, dietary assessment, clinical research or RCTs, and familiarity with REDCap or similar databases.

Applications must be submitted online in English by 12 November 2026, with a motivation letter (max. two pages) and a CV in PDF format. Interviews are expected shortly after the deadline.