Dr. Thomas Nemecek is the deputy leader of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research group and senior researcher at Agroscope in Zurich, Switzerland. His field of research is the environmental life cycle assessment of agricultural production systems in general and cropping systems, animal production systems, food supply and nutrition in particular. He works on the development of LCA methodology for agriculture (Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment, SALCA) and made an important contribution to the development of agricultural life cycle inventories in ecoinvent. The main focus of his current research are the environmental impacts of nutrition and food systems. He coordinates the EU project OptiSignFood with the aim of developing a tool for optimising environmental impacts, nutritional value and food quality for the food and beverage industry.

Dr. Nanna Meyer is a Clinical Associate Professor in Human Physiology and Nutrition at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). She worked in Olympic sport nutrition for 20 years, supporting US athletes at 5 Olympic games. Since 2015, she has been focused on the integration of sustainable development in sport nutrition with specific interest in food systems change. In 2020, Nanna and her husband and farmer Dan Hobbs launched their own seed & food company, Pueblo Seed & Food Co., which offers various breakfast cereals, cookies, and spice blends. Since, they have established a seed and bakehouse which offers fresh baked goods all made from their own grains while also being milled and fermented in-house. Working on the ground with people in their rural community provides endless opportunities for the dispersion of sustainable, healthy eating habits through food and grain literacy directly out of their seed and bakehouse.

Dr. Alba Reguant Closa is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Life Cycle Assessment group at Agroscope (Zurich) specialising in including nutrition and health dimensions into the sustainable assessment of foods and diets. Alba received her Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy and Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Navarra (Spain). As a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, Alba graduated from a Master’s degree in sports nutrition at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS). With her interest in sustainability, her PhD under Dr. Nanna Meyer focused on the integration of sustainability in sports nutrition with a focus on the environmental impacts of diets from athletes. Born in Andorra, at the heart of the mountains of the Pyrenees and passionate about nature, she is now focusing her efforts on raising awareness relative to the links between health-nutrition and environmental impacts of food production and consumption.