Dr. Anna Fricke is a scientist in the program area “Plant Quality and Food Security” at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ). She is interested in studying the biodiversity, ecophysiology and utilization of benthic algae. In the food4future project "Macroalgae", she is responsible for the cultivation and investigation of further potential applications of macroalgae in the food sector.

Prof. Dr. Susanne Baldermann is head of the working group "Food Chemistry and Nutrition" in the program area "Plant Quality and Food Security" at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ). She is associated with the Institute of Nutritional Science, Chair of Food Chemistry at the University of Potsdam. Her scientific focus lays on the analysis of secondary metabolism in plant foods and its importance for food quality. In food4future she leads the research field "Organisms".

Dr. Andreas Kunzmann is an expert in ecophysiology (role of stress on metabolism & turnover), with direct application in aquaculture, where food and energy budgets play a key role. IMTA (integrated multi-trophic aquaculture) and bioremediation in tropical coastal areas are in focus. His ecophysiology group has several IMTA projects in Africa and Asia. Andreas Kunzmann is a member of the Leibniz Research Alliance “Sustainable Food Production and Healthy Nutrition” (LFV-LE) and has more than 30 years of work experience in tropical countries.

Dr.-Ing. habil. Oliver Schlüter is coordinator of the research program “Quality and Safety of Food and Feed” and head of the working group “New Food Resources and Technologies” at ATB. In his research work, Dr. Schlüter focuses on the use of novel technologies in the primary production of food (fruit, vegetables, herbs, spices, meat, edible insects), the processing of fresh products (high pressure, plasma, etc.) and on the non-destructive monitoring of quality and safety aspects (fluorescence image analysis, flow cytometry, etc.).

Dr. Daniela Weber is a research associate in the Department of Molecular Toxicology at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE). She is interested in the investigation of fat-soluble micronutrients in human studies related to age. Together with Prof. Dr. Tilman Grune (DIfE), she is the project leader for the sub-project “Bioavailability of micronutrients using the example of macroalgae” in food4future.

Prof. Dr. Christian Dreyer is deputy head of the research area Polymer Materials and Composites PYCO at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP and professor for fiber composite material technologies at the Technical University of Wildau. In addition to developing new fiber composite lightweight materials, his work focuses on researching alternative hardening methods for reactive resins using UV radiation and microwaves. At food4future, he is project leader for the research area PYCO as well as work field leader for the Urban Bio Spaces.

Prof. Dr. Carsten Busch heads the “Food Chemistry and Nutrition” working group in the “Plant Quality and Food Security” program area at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ). She is associated with the Institute of Nutritional Science, Chair of Food Chemistry at the University of Potsdam. Her scientific focus is on the analysis of secondary metabolism in plant foods and its significance for food quality. In food4future she heads the research field "Organisms".

Dr. Ferike Thom works at the Thünen Institute of Agricultural Economics. She is currently working on the further development of the CAPRI model in order to map the processing of agricultural raw materials into ready-to-eat foods and the decisions of end consumers in a similarly detailed way as the production of agricultural raw materials. Her work includes mapping consumer choices between animal products and their plant-based equivalents (e.g. cow's and oat's milk, butter and margarine) and serves as a basis for further extension to novel foods based on f4f organisms.