She has a PhD in nutrition from the University of Southampton, a PG Cert in Applied Sports Nutrition from St. Mary’s University College, London, and is an STA full swimming teacher and UKCC / ITU Level 2 Triathlon coach. Experience in sports nutrition includes a range of research and client work, with both beginner and elite level athletes. In 2014, Ali and Professor Stewart Bruce-Low’s experiment on capsaicin and its effect on football performance was featured on BBC1’s “Late Kick Off”. She is providing nutritional support to a group of scouts from Hampshire Scouting Expeditions who will be attempting an unsupported ski/kite-ski crossing of Antarctica in 2018.