Artist

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.

Psychoanalyst

Judd Grill lives and works in New York.

Scientist

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.

Scientist

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.

Scientist

Johannes le Coutre is a senior research scientist and head of the Perception Physiology Group at the Nestlé Research Center.

Chemical Engineer

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.

Scientist

​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.

Beat Mazenauer is a freelance author, literary critic and networker. He works in both Lucerne and Zurich.

Photo: Sabine Burger

Scientist

Martin started his professional career in 1993 as a biologist at the Inselspital in Bern working on tissue engineering with the aim of repairing cartilage defects.

He joined the Nestlé Research Center in 1995 as microscopist and was involved in improving the efficiency of spray drying of milk. Since 1999 he has headed different groups including food material science, colloid science and natural colours. During this period he set up a program to develop a natural blue from red cabbage that is stable in various foods.

Today, Martin is a group manager at the Nestlé Research Center and heads the Micronutrient Fortification Group. In this role he and his team develop new delivery systems to fortify foods with dietary minerals such as iron and zinc, and vitamins. He likes hiking, rowing and plays guitar, if time allows.

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