Francesco Panese is an associate professor of the social studies of science and medicine at the University of Lausanne. He is also the director of the Musée de la main, a museum for science, medicine and society.
Heather Paxson is an anthropologist and associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she has taught since 2003. She is the author of two books, including The Life of Cheese.
Florent Quellier holds the chair at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) for the modern history of food and is a lecturer on modern history at the Université François-Rabelais in Tours. He is the director of the Tables des Hommes collection, as well as a member of the editorial committee of the multilingual journal Food & History of the European Institute for the History and Cultures of Food (IEHCA).
Yunlong Song was born in Yantai, P. R. China. He studied Arabic, international relations and journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Later he got his M.A. in film from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Since 2008, he has been involved in many Swiss university exchange programmes, and worked for intercultural workshops and arts projects.
Susanne Wenger is a freelance journalist based in in Bern. For years she worked as editor and section head for Swiss dailies, including Der Bund. Today she writes on social and health issues for journals, newspapers and agencies.
Ian Ferguson is the director of PostlerFerguson, a London-based design consultancy that works across the entire product ecosystem, from branding and packaging to digital and production. At MIT, the company’s 2013 exhibition “Personal Space” presented designs for cooking and living in the private space stations of the future.
