Patrizia Coggiola has worked as a journalist for almost fifteen years, as well as as a fashion and design editor for international magazines. She has authored and produced videos, and been the managing director of many editorial projects, both on- and offline.
Vera Franke is an exhibition designer whose office Franke | Steinert is based in Berlin. Sie teaches at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and at the Berlin Universtiy of the Arts. Since 2007 she is a lecturer in the Department of Cultural Analysis at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Mona Gandhi is an artist whose inquiry into food – natural & industrial – has deepened her engagement with local and sustainable food systems. She lives in Bombay and goes wherever her work takes her.
Christoph Hartmann started his professional career as a mechanical engineer in the automotive industry in 1997. He joined the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne in 2006, where he investigated the mechanisms of in-mouth food breakdown. Today he is a group manager at Nestlé R&D China and heads the Nestlé Food Safety Institute in Beijing.
Julie Hudry holds a PhD in neurosciences from Claude Bernard University in Lyon (France) and completed a post-doctoral degree at McGill University in the Montréal Neurological Institute (Canada). She joined the Nestlé Research Center in 2004.
Chrystel Loret studied food science in France. While based at Unilever Research in the UK, she went on to earn a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham. In 2007 she joined the Nestlé Research Center.
Andrea Maier studied food technology and nutrition at the University of Fulda, Germany. She took her graduate degree in food science and nutrition at the University of Minnesota. Since 2011, Andrea has been head of the Consumer Link Department at the Nestlé Product Technology Center in Singen, Germany.
