Team members

The team of research centre Future of Food consists of 6 members led by professor Danny Han.

Lector

'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.'
(Soren Kierkegaard)

Lecturer Researcher

'If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world.'
(Noam Chomsky)

Maud Meijers

Lecturer Researcher

'The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.' (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Sílvia Gabriela Abreu e Silva

Lecturer Researcher

'I am passionate about food and I believe in the power that food can bring to health, using a combined approach of nutrition, gastronomy and sensory science when developing menus and food products.'

Ilonka Omta

Lecturer Researcher

'Taste is an acquired disposition to 'differentiate' and 'appreciate'; it is the product of upbringing and education that becomes embodied as a habitus.' (Drawing on Bourdieu’s work: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1979))