Presentations by Dr Rob Burton (Ruralis) and Dr Sophia Efstathiou (NTNU) will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Dr Olga Mikhailova (NMBU). Audience members are encouraged to submit their questions ahead of time (see contact info further down) or during the webinar in Zoom.
About the speakers
Dr Rob Burton is an agricultural/rural geographer with 25 years of experience studying farming and food systems in the UK, New Zealand and Norway. He has a MSc from the University of Otago (NZ), and a PhD from DeMontfort University (UK). He is currently employed as a research professor (Forsker 1) at Ruralis - Institute for Rural and Regional Research located in Trondheim, Norway. His interests include a range of topics including farmers’ response to climate change, cultural drivers of agri-environmental behaviour, bioeconomic transitions, and, currently, the future impact of cellular agriculture on farming and rural areas. He has just finished leading the three year project – The biosynthetic protein transition: assessing impacts, outcomes and opportunities for Norway’s post-animal bioeconomy (Protein2.0).
See presentations from the 2022 Protein 2.0 closing conference: Mot en fremtid med laboratoriedyrket mat?
Dr Sophia Efstathiou is a philosopher/improviser. She works on the interfaces of science, art and everyday life in the programme for applied ethics at NTNU. She is the Primary Investigator of the Norwegian Research Council project MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat-use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation (2020-2024). Her research has been awarded NRC, Horizon 2020, NSF, Max Planck and White funding and invited by the Athens Biennale (2012, 2018), Ars Electronica (2020) and the Cornell Biennial (2020). Her work won a Making and Doing award by the Society for the Social Studies of Science in 2023. She holds a PhD and MA in Philosophy (Science Studies) from the University of California San Diego, and a Masters of Physics in Mathematics and Physics from Warwick University. Personal website: www.ideobics.com
Suggested reading: Performing meat: Meat replacement as drag (Efstathiou, 2022)
Moderator:
Dr Olga Mikhailova is a postdoc at the School of Economics and Business at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). She is a part of the DLN project EcoGene, where she studies ethical considerations of implementing gene editing tools to improve food stocks. She is a member of the DLN Junior Resource Group.
Suggested reading: “RRI and Corporate Stakeholder Engagement: The Aquadvantage Salmon Case” (Callegari & Mikhailova, 2021)
About the seminars
"Digital Frukost" is an open breakfast seminar series focusing on research activities at the interface between the biological sciences and that of mathematics, computer science, physics or engineering. Examples of such research activities could be mathematical or computational modeling of biological systems, application of engineering/control systems theory on biological systems or inspired by biological systems, application of mathematics/statistics/machine learning to analyze big data in health or marine sector; from sensor systems, imaging or omics technologies etc.
For questions, please reach out to:
Kam Sripada, kam.sripada@ntnu.no
Christoffer Hals, christoffer.hals@mn.uio.no