The Future of Food: The fourth Residency cohort explored how technological innovations and ethical frameworks in food production and consumption address global health challenges and social inequalities. The participants dissected the evolving landscape of global food practices and speculated on the future of food.
Humboldt Residency Programme 2025
The former Georg Forster Research Fellow Vânia Zuin Zeidler from Brazil is a Full Professor in the Institute of Sustainable
Chemistry at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. She headed the Humboldt Residency Programme 2025.
Nandini Agarwal is a former German Chancellor Fellow from India. Her research focuses on sustainability and equitable food systems.
Abiola Awoyemi is an international development practitioner. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (Ogbomoso, Nigeria), where she explores the gender dimensions of food security in her country.
Annie Faye Cheng is a butcher, writer, and chef based in New York City with a long-term experience in food and hospitality. She envisions an equitable, joyful future for food that combines labour justice, environmental consciousness and cultural diversity.
The former Georg Forster Research Award Winner Muhammad Farooq is Professor of Agronomy at Sultan Qaboos
University (Maskat, Oman), with more than 20 years of experience in sustainable agriculture and food security.
Mónica Guerra Rocha is co-founder of the Comida do Amanhã Institute in Brazil, a think tank supporting
the transition towards healthy and sustainable food systems. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), where she studies urban foodscapes.
The designer Mark-David Pintucan is co-founder and executive director of LokalLab, a non-profit organisation on the Philippine island of Siargao that works to create sustainable and resilient development models for fragile island ecosystems.
Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri is a designer, whose work focuses on public engagement, ecological equity and creating livable cities. She lives in France.
Bryant Simon is a former Humboldt Research Award Winner and Laura H. Carnell Professor of History at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA). He focuses on the history of everyday life in the United States, especially on food studies.
Carl Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in digital journalism at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) and a science journalist and presenter.
Jack Thompson currently lives in Senegal and works as a freelance journalist, editor and communications consultant. He also works for the platform TABLE, where he helps break down food systems research through accessible podcasts and newsletters.
The participants of the Humboldt Residency Programme 2025 during the two-week familiarisation and work phase at the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg.
