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Dr Holger Scheib is a chemist and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. As “The HealthChemist” he translates research on ingredients and nutrition into plain language.

Dr Holger Scheib is a chemist, entrepreneur and author. For twenty years he studied how molecules act in the body, at the Nestlé Research Center, at GlaxoSmithKline and at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, publishing in Nature, PNAS and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Today he teaches chemistry and, as “The HealthChemist”, explains what is proven about ingredients — and what is merely claimed.

Dr Holger Scheib is a chemist, entrepreneur, teacher and author. After a doctorate at the University of Stuttgart and a master's at the University of Cincinnati, he spent two decades working at the intersection of chemistry, biology and computing: as Head of Structural Bioinformatics at the University of Geneva, as Senior Scientist at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, at GlaxoSmithKline and at the Nestlé Research Center, where he led Computational Molecular Sciences. His work appeared in Nature, PNAS, Structure, the EMBO Journal and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, and he remains an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Since 2008 he has taught chemistry at Kantonsschule Solothurn. He is the founder and managing director of CuraCap GmbH and a co-founder of the nutrition app Naviyara. As “The HealthChemist” he writes about ingredients and nutrition, labelling every claim visibly: proven, plausible or hypothesis. His book on hair and scalp health is forthcoming.